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Montpelier, VT – A newly created board set up to design and implement a publicly funded health care system for the state of Vermont is to hold its first meeting tomorrow. WAMC's Tristan O'Neill reports...
The five members of the Green Mountain Care Board gather at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration in Montpelier.
The board was established by a law passed this year aimed at moving Vermont toward a single-payer health care system, a goal Governor Peter Shumlin says can be met by 2017 if not sooner.
Among the board's tasks will be to come up with a package of benefits that would be covered by a state plan, and the review methods for how the newly designed health system would be paid for.
Tristan O'Neill, WAMC News.
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