Open Congress : News Articles for S.88 IDEA Full Funding Act

Vermont House candidates answer questions

2010-10-21T20:00:00Z

...My decision will be informed using the data reported by experts who are completing the research and analysis on various options (S.88). 2. VERMONT YANKEE: Yes. The data is clear that this plant which continues to leak tritium into the groundwater needs

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Statehouse: Health panels lose key leaders

2010-08-31T20:00:00Z

...disclosure law to ban most gifts or payments to doctors from the medical industry. His work earlier this year focused on S.88, an omnibus health care bill that approved spending $300,000 to hire Hsiao to design new health care models for the state. When

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Letter: Enthusiastically endorsing Racine in primary

2010-08-14T20:00:00Z

...raising property taxes. It was Doug's consistent leadership and ability to pull everyone together that brought about passage of S.88, Vermont's health care reform bill. I appreciate Doug's thoughtful and visionary approach to public service. I also am g

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Letter: Racine only one to beat Dubie

2010-08-14T20:00:00Z

Letter: Shumlin stands out from contenders

2010-07-24T20:00:00Z

...by Gov. Douglas. And in the Senate, unlike Sens. Doug Racine and Susan Bartlett, Peter Shumlin co-sponsored the original S.88, which was initially a bill to establish single payer health care in Vermont. From the beginning, he has been clear and unequiv

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Letters to the Editor: Fee increase should have been published

2010-07-24T20:00:00Z

...but vetoed by Gov. Douglas. And in the Senate, unlike Sens. Doug Racine and Susan Bartlett, Peter Shumlin co-sponsored the original S.88, which was initially a bill to establish single payer health care in Vermont. From the beginning, he has been clear

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Letter: Shumlin stands out from contenders

2010-07-24T20:00:00Z

Business group rates lawmakers

2010-07-19T20:00:00Z

...on key issues are not always as cut and dried as the scorecards make them out to be. For example, she said she voted against S.88 – the health care reform bill – after the House added in new provisions. “Small businesses are the backbone of Vermon

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Letters: Don’t let animals suffer, immigration trades?

2010-07-15T20:00:00Z

...who called the vote to make sure Yankee power was denied relicensing, and he was also one of the sponsors of the original S.88 bill that would have established a single payer health care system in Vermont (the most fiscally sensible way to provide unive

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No More Mr. Nice Guy?

2010-06-29T20:00:00Z

...This year, Racine’s signature achievement was a health care reform plan that’s getting mixed reviews. As originally written, S.88 called for establishing a single-payer health care system in Vermont. In its final version, the bill shelved an actual

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Letters: Unfair to criticize Palin daughter

2010-06-22T20:00:00Z

...truth is that he was not even an original sponsor of the one single-payer bill which came up in the Senate this year. That bill, S.88, got completely overhauled by both the Senate and the House until it may be called a bill to study a single-payer plan

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My Turn: On Leddy appointment, facts trump perception

2010-06-22T20:00:00Z

...consumer representatives to the Legislature's Health Care Reform Commission was part of the recently passed health care bill (S.88) in the Vermont Statehouse. The selection of former state Sen. Jim Leddy was obvious and ideal -- a point agreed upon by a

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Letters: Disturbed by article; Health care misconceptions; No excuse

2010-06-20T20:00:00Z

...was your sensitivity? Manchester Center ‘Misconceptions’ on new health care law There is a misconception concerning the current S.88 health care bill that has just become law. This bill, which Doug Racine has championed, asks for three designs of po

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Letters to the Editor

2010-06-15T20:00:00Z

... Racine for governor on health care focus My thanks to the Vermont Legislature, Sen. Doug Racine in particular, for passage of S.88, which now places affordable health care in Vermont within reach. My husband and I run a small business, so we pay 100 pe

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Letter: Racine for governor on health care focus

2010-06-15T20:00:00Z

...thanks to the Vermont Legislature, Sen. Doug Racine in particular, for passage of S.88, which now places affordable health care in Vermont within reach. My husband and I run a small business, so we pay 100 percent of our health care premium. In the last

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Single payer advocate challenges AARP volunteers appointment

2010-06-14T20:00:00Z

...insurance company,” Marchildon said. “We don’t write insurance policies.” Lawmakers in Montpelier this year passed a bill called S.88. Among a host of health care tweaks it contained was a provision, championed by Sen. Doug Racine, D-Chittenden,

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Weekend Politics: Dems Tiptoe at Debate, Dubie & Douglas Come Out Swinging (VIDEO)

2010-06-13T20:00:00Z

...Here, we got some of the only fireworks of the day. Shumlin criticized the end product of Racine's health care bill, known as S.88, that calls for three studies into models for implementing universal health care. Shumlin said one study — leading to a

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State seeks health care proposals

2010-06-10T20:00:00Z

...ready for us in early January." Racine, one of the five Democrats running in the primary this year, spearheaded the effort to get S.88 passed in the Legislature this year. He said the goal of the bill was to move beyond the debates over what type of sys

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Governor signs unemployment insurance trust fund fix

2010-05-26T20:00:00Z

...Change bill and budget bill – means that the future is unclear for only a relatively few measures. One is the health care bill, S.88. Douglas has said he does not think one major portion of the measure, which would require the state to hire a consulta

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Letters to the Editor, May 25, 2010

2010-05-24T20:00:00Z

...health care system. On May 11, the Vermont Senate once again rose to the occasion and took a giant step further by passing S.88, the bill to design three separate health care systems, by a vote of 25-4. One of these systems must be single payer. Vermont

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Letter: Thanks for dropping drug sample rules

2010-05-18T20:00:00Z

...advocacy groups, I am writing to thank the 19 senators who supported an amendment offered by Sen. Richard Sears on May 4 to S.88 that eliminated the requirement that medicine samples be disclosed to the Vermont Attorney General. I'd like to take this op

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Hopefuls for governor in forum: Not much of a debate for Democrats

2010-05-18T20:00:00Z

...the governor in January. "It's absolutely essential for the economic future of Vermont," he said. Shumlin touted his work on S.88, a bill still awaiting the governor's signature that he said will enable the state to hire a Harvard expert who's designed

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Racine defends health care bill

2010-05-12T20:00:00Z

...made it clear Wednesday, as the Legislature prepared to wrap up its annual session, that he has two serious problems with S.88, including Racine's plan to spend $250,000 for a consultant to design new health care models for Vermont, one of which would b

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Keep health care reform moving forward in Vermont

2010-05-11T20:00:00Z

...care we need at costs we can afford. The Vermont House and Senate have each passed different versions of health reform legislation (S.88) in recent weeks, and they are attempting to work out the differences now. Majorities of both houses agree that the

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Letters to the Editor

2010-05-06T20:00:00Z

...As Ellen wrote: "The push for universal health care ... is coming from a diverse group of people and legislators." That S.88 passed the House and Senate with considerable majorities, overcoming the opposition thrown against it, resulted from years of ha

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Pringle powered '76 Olympic bid

2010-05-05T20:00:00Z

...all of us can stay here and have a health care system that allows us to do so. This year Vermont is on the verge of passing a bill, S.88, which will put our state on that path. We need to show Vermont lawmakers that we want to put an end to private insu

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Lawmakers weigh sample drug oversight

2010-05-05T20:00:00Z

...decision Tuesday night. Lawmakers have been battling over the provision in the health care bill for nearly a month. The bill, S.88, includes plans for expanding the Blueprint for Health program, capping annual hospital budget increases and requiring ins

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Senate strikes tracking of drug samples from health care reform bill

2010-05-04T20:00:00Z

...jettisoned a provision that would have allowed the state to track free drug samples given to doctors. The health care bill, S.88, passed with strong support in a voice vote shortly after 7 p.m., but much of the debate focused on a plan that would requir

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Senate kills drug sample tracking

2010-05-04T20:00:00Z

Dry summers are the best weapon in California native battle over exotic plants

2010-05-03T20:00:00Z

...Vermont. It also works immediately to cuts costs and expands on current reforms to improve primary and preventive care. Under S.88, one or more experts will be hired to create at least three designs for a single system of health care in Vermont. One d

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Health care rally draws hundreds to Montpelier

2010-05-01T20:00:00Z

...care services," says James Haslam of the Vermont Workers' Center. A debate that effects every Vermonter with no cheap solution. S.88, the so-called Healthy Vermont bill, passed the House and Senate. Differences are being worked out in a conference commi

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We’re making important strides

2010-04-29T20:00:00Z

...$1 billion in the next two to three years, from $4.9 billion to $5.9 billion. We simply cannot afford to wait to move ahead. S.88 is now an excellent combination of forward thinking and immediate action. The full Legislature should pass this comprehensi

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The hands-down dumbest

2010-04-25T20:00:00Z

...on this study. But that’s Sen. Racine’s plan. May I have the envelope, please? And now -- the dumbest bill of the year is ... S.88! Let’s give a big hand to its author, Sen. Doug Racine! S.88 is Sen. Racine’s bill to create a government run sing

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Vt. House approves health care bill

2010-04-23T20:00:00Z

...what is actually does. She said she would be "perfectly comfortable looking any constituent in the eye and explain why we need S.88." "This is about the misinformation campaign that the pharmaceutical companies have led the doctors on," said Rep. George

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S.88 makes good business sense

2010-04-13T20:00:00Z

...options, so the owners and managers can make an informed choice for their situation and product. The Healthy Vermont bill (S.88) that recently passed in the Vermont Senate does just that for the state’s health care -- it calls for experts to custom-de

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Now is the time: Support single-payer

2010-04-04T20:00:00Z

...insurance company. As described in the lead editorial of the March 5 edition of the Bennington Banner, Vermont Senate bill S.88 is legislation that will establish a single-payer health care system for Vermonters and Vermont businesses. Currently, S.88 h

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Letter: Tell legislators to support single-payer

2010-03-29T20:00:00Z

...here in the Green Mountains. Tell them jobs are a factor and they have the power to make real change a reality. Support S.88 and you are supporting not only health care for all but you are also supporting individual entrepreneurs and the business commun

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Vermont’s own?

2010-03-05T19:00:00Z

...business sector. It might be the best deal we’ve seen since milk in a bottle. Although single-payer proposals, such as Senate bill S.88 and House bill H.100, are considered a longshot by most -- and might require waivers from the federal government be

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Letter: State obviously needs health care reform

2010-01-28T19:00:00Z

This is in response to a recent negative editorial from The Burlington Free Press concerning the upcoming hearings on a single-payer health insurance plan for Vermont (see House bill H.100 and Senate bill S.88) ("Premature to take up health care in

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My Turn: Vermont health bill goes in wrong direction

2010-01-27T19:00:00Z

There are two bills being considered by the Legislature of Vermont (H.100, S.88). They are identical, with one going through the House and the other going through the Senate. I have read the bill and have the following comments. I agree with them that

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Letters: Time for single-payer health care in Vermont

2010-01-05T19:00:00Z

...20) concerning the upcoming hearing on a Single Payer health insurance plan for Vermont (see House bill H.100 and Senate bill S.88). The latest so-called reform coming out of Washington excluding a public option and Medicare buy in, at the behest of the

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Vt. health reform tops Jan. agenda

2009-12-13T19:00:00Z

...including considering a single-payer option. January's public forum is to collect input on two single-payer bills – H.100 and S.88 – each creating a state-run health care system. Sen. Doug Racine, the Chittenden County Democrat who chairs the Senate

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Letters to the Editor

2009-12-05T19:00:00Z

...can control costs by reducing the administrative overhead and waste of our current system. Two single-payer bills (H.100 and S.88) have already been proposed, and these are what our lawmakers in Montpelier should be considering in the 2010 legislative s

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Forum rallies support for single-payer care

2009-11-22T19:00:00Z

...D-Chittenden, chairman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee and a candidate for governor, has pledged to hold hearings on S.88, a bill calling for a state-level single-payer system during the upcoming legislative session. Comments made here are t

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Letters: The debate continues

2009-11-19T19:00:00Z

adequate. This brings me to what we can do. We can pursue health care reform here in Vermont. We can pursue getting two bills that are currently in the state legislature, S.88 and H.100 debated, so to speak. We can get the waivers necessary to make

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Vermonters discuss future of health care (11/19/09)

2009-11-18T19:00:00Z

...reform proposals that will be brought up in the next legislative session beginning in January. House bill H.100 and Senate Bill S.88 would enact universal health coverage to Vermonters should the federal plan fail, said John McClaughry, former president

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My Turn: Take a look at Canadian health care

2009-07-24T20:00:00Z

...the debate over "single payer" health care for Vermont (bills H.100 and S.88), one of the negative blow back arguments that will be used by the health care industry and their political allies is the scare tactic concerning the cost of such a plan, or in

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Vermont must lead the way in healthcare

2009-07-05T20:00:00Z

...-- including businesses, labor unions and community organizations -- to pass single-payer healthcare legislation (H.100 and S.88). Another excuse we were given is that we would need federal waivers to make a Vermont single-payer system work. Understandi

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My Turn: Support proposals for single-payer care

2009-06-28T20:00:00Z

...to courageous Vermont politicians, to make this idea more than a dream. There are bills in the state Legislature (H.100 and S.88) that would allow the state of Vermont to act as a single payer, eliminating the need for wasteful insurance middlemen. Sen.

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My Turn: Vermont must lead on health care

2009-06-27T20:00:00Z

...of Vermonters -- including businesses, unions and community organizations -- to pass single-payer health care legislation (H.100 and S.88). We know there will be Vermont legislators who say it's still not possible. But we are finding more and more Vermo

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Vermont must lead the way in healthcare

2009-06-24T20:00:00Z

...including businesses, labor unions and community organizations to pass single-payer healthcare legislation (H.100 and S.88). Another excuse we were given is that we would need federal waivers to make a Vermont single-payer system work. Understanding tha

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My Turn: It's politicians on wrong side of history

2009-06-19T20:00:00Z

...leadership has refused to even hold hearings on the bills that would really do something about the cost of health care. H.100, S.88 and other good bills have been left "on the wall" and ignored. These proposals have the potential to cut our health care

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My Turn: A doctor's view on single-payer care

2009-06-12T20:00:00Z

...we pay per capita in the United States. So I encourage everyone to push for the passage of the single-payer bills H.100 and S.88 in Vermont, and also Sen. Sanders' bill -- S.703 -- at the federal level. Call or write your legislators today. Marvin Malek

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