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Vermont healthcare regulators are cracking down on OneCare Vermont over concerns the organization is misusing funds meant to support the state’s primary care providers.

Vermont state officials now say they don’t have enough money to cover their revised plan to house the most vulnerable group of Vermonters in hotels after the end of June.

Vermont healthcare regulators are cracking down on OneCare Vermont over concerns the organization is misusing funds meant to support the state’s primary care providers.

Gov. Phil Scott Friday defended the winding down of the state’s emergency hotel program, saying the federally-funded pandemic program is not sustainable for the state to continue funding.

Human Services Secretary Mike Smith, who has been a key leader in Vermont’s response to the pandemic, will retire at the end of the year....