Community Forum: Support the Green Mountain Care Board

We commend the Green Mountain Care Board for augmenting its efforts in tackling the crippling health care costs in Vermont, most specifically in relation to the recent FY2025 Hospital Budget Decision And Order, as well as stimulating serious discussions through the presentation of the Oliver Wyman consultant report.

The Green Mountain Care Board is working hard at the near impossible task of reducing Vermont health care costs. Many Vermonters are unable to afford the high cost of health care insurance and are falling into medical debt.

Dr. Bruce Hamory has given plenty of dire prognoses to patients during a half century of toiling in the healthcare trenches. On Tuesday evening, his grim forecast was not for an individual, but for an entire healthcare system — Vermont’s healthcare system … (read more)

The public is invited to a Green Mountain Care Board meeting in Middlebury later this month to give their input on the transformation of Vermont hospitals.

Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board has the unenviable task of overseeing hospital budgeting while exploring innovations in the ways in which health care is delivered and paid for. There have been many changes in, and pressures on, the state’s health care … (read more)

Many Vermonters can’t afford healthcare and regulators and politicians aren’t doing anything about it.

Green Mountain Care Board members chided OneCare Vermont for its administrative costs and salary increases on Wednesday, as the board reviewed the accountable care organization’s 2021 budget. OneCare, a private company, has proposed to manage $1.46 billio … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — In a move that could have dire long-term consequences for Addison County’s nursing home, the Green Mountain Care Board (GMBC) on Tuesday rejected Porter Hospital’s request for a 5.75% increase in its commercial rate as part of its fiscal year … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center officials on Friday morning indicated that Helen Porter Nursing & Rehabilitation is not in imminent peril of closing in spite of its ongoing budget shortfalls, but said the facility will be in serious financial trouble g … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Porter Hospital officials on Tuesday, Sept. 29, will lobby the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) to reconsider its recommendation to pare back the hospital’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget request because it, in part, subsidizes operations at Helen P … (read more)