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The search committee, lead by Roger Katz, will hold public listening sessions Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 in Bangor and Augusta, respectively, to gather feedback about what faculty, staff and community members would like to see in a president.

Key steps: Bring more rationality and accountability to hospital prices and expenditures with global budgets, eliminate or curtail surplus accumulation by hospitals, reduce the volume of practices that land people in emergency rooms and hospital beds, and compel the drug industry to negotiate lower prices.

Vermont will never achieve rational cost control, universal access and better health for its population until our reform efforts shift dramatically to focus on primary care, prevention and other health-related community services.

Vermont has sidelined issues of affordability, price, avoidable hospital care, emergency room overutilization, and the importance of enhanced community-based services.

As a former legislator in the opposing party, I have great admiration for Margaret (Peggy) Rotundo, candidate for state Senate District 21. We worked for eight years together on the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs. Assuredly, we differed on many of the policy areas which we were charged with funding. Yet, […]

Several years ago Mitt Romney, a Republican governor, joined with a very liberal Massachusetts legislature to transform that state's health care system. They took advantage of a Bush administration-approved waiver and fundamentally changed the state Medicaid program.

Two weeks after the short-term extension was announced to state lawmakers, the University of Maine System board of trustees votes to extend Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy's contract to July 11.

Trustees voted to extend Chancellor Dannel Malloy's contract until July 11, two weeks after the deal was announced to state lawmakers.

For World War II veteran Vaughn “Sam” Humphrey, age 100, Memorial Day is about remembering those lost in wars and about being thankful.

Its a war: A look inside Beaumonts COVID-19 unit as doctors, nurses fight to keep patients alive By Jessica Dupnack and Fox 2 Staff Published  Look inside Beaumont COVID-19 shows struggles faced during number spike When Beaumont saw its COVID-19 hospitalizations spike earlier this month, FOX 2 went into a COVID unit to see what doctors and nurses were battling on the front lines. TROY, Mich. (FOX 2) - Its been more than a year of overwhelming work for families and friends on the frontlin...