S.88 - IDEA Full Funding Act

A bill to amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part. view all titles (2)

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  • Official: A bill to amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part. as introduced.
  • Short: IDEA Full Funding Act as introduced.

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10/21/10
Vermont House candidates answer questions

...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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08/31/10
Statehouse: Health panels lose key leaders

...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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08/14/10
Letter: Enthusiastically endorsing Racine in primary

...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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08/14/10
Letter: Racine only one to beat Dubie

...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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07/24/10
Letter: Shumlin stands out from contenders

...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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07/24/10
Letters to the Editor: Fee increase should have been published

...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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07/24/10
Letter: Shumlin stands out from contenders

...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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07/19/10
Business group rates lawmakers

...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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07/15/10
Letters: Don’t let animals suffer, immigration trades?

...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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06/29/10
No More Mr. Nice Guy?

...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

Source: Seven Days
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06/22/10
Letters: Unfair to criticize Palin daughter

...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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06/22/10
My Turn: On Leddy appointment, facts trump perception

...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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06/20/10
Letters: Disturbed by article; Health care misconceptions; No excuse

...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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06/15/10
Letters to the Editor

... 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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06/15/10
Letter: Racine for governor on health care focus

...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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06/14/10
Single payer advocate challenges AARP volunteers appointment

...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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06/13/10
Weekend Politics: Dems Tiptoe at Debate, Dubie & Douglas Come Out Swinging (VIDEO)

...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

Source: Seven Days
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06/10/10
State seeks health care proposals

...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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05/26/10
Governor signs unemployment insurance trust fund fix

...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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05/24/10
Letters to the Editor, May 25, 2010

...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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05/18/10
Letter: Thanks for dropping drug sample rules

...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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05/18/10
Hopefuls for governor in forum: Not much of a debate for Democrats

...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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05/12/10
Racine defends health care bill

...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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05/11/10
Keep health care reform moving forward in Vermont

...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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05/06/10
Letters to the Editor

...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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05/05/10
Pringle powered '76 Olympic bid

...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

Source: Denver Post
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05/05/10
Lawmakers weigh sample drug oversight

...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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05/04/10
Senate strikes tracking of drug samples from health care reform bill

...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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05/04/10
Senate kills drug sample tracking

...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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05/03/10
Dry summers are the best weapon in California native battle over exotic plants

...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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