Health care is a service like any other. We ought to expect price transparency for medical goods and services to make informed choices that maximize value. However, Americans have been gulled into believing that health care is too expensive to…
Continue readingDoes a government mandate requiring individuals to buy health insurance have the unintended consequence of reducing access to health care, and increasing the cost of insurance? Meg Hansen joins Bill Sayre on Common Sense Radio to discuss.
Continue readingThe FY2019 budget for OneCare Vermont — a statewide Accountable Care Organization (ACO) — is requesting nearly an additional $9 million in taxpayer funds for Health Information Technology and Care Coordination support. However, the response to our FOIA request by…
Continue readingPublic discourse about health insurance has become so politicized that few address policy with dispassion. When policymakers assess every law through the prism of Obamacare, championing only those that protect the legislation, the people lose. Obamacare or the Affordable Care…
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The rights and benefits accompanying public sector union membership, e.g. collective bargaining, job security, and workplace safety, do not apply to home care workers. They are often family members that look after a medically impaired parent, spouse, or child who…
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‘Medicare for All,’ the single-payer legislation introduced by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, proposes a systemic overhaul of American health care that will (1) cost $32.6 trillion for the first decade, (2) result in health car rationing and (3) stifle U.S. medical…
Continue readingDisparities in health-care spending within the United States are great. In 2014, Sanders’s own state of Vermont spent almost twice as much ($10,190) per capita on health care as Utah ($5,982). ‘Medicare for All’ would require an enormous redistribution of…
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On May 3, 2018, VHCF issued a press brief that advocated thr State of Vermont to take legal action against Purdue Pharma over the opioid crisis. SEEKING RESTITUTION: State of Vermont v. Purdue Pharma In 2007, Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to…
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According to Meg Hansen, executive director of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, Green Mountain Care was “Vermont’s ill-fated tryst with ‘Medicare for All.’” Hansen says her state’s experience “emphasizes the need to educate the American people that single-payer can only…
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