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Approve of BCBSVT leaving OneCare Vermont

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont issued a press release on Dec. 20, 2022, announcing it would forego its 2023 participation in OneCare Vermont, the state's sole Accountable Care Organization.

Primary care physicians, mental health counselors, home health caregivers and nurses desperately need more financial support and programmatic resources to serve and protect us. We must come to their aid.

So much of what troubles our current health care system is attributable to the dysfunction of private, for-profit companies seeking ways to milk Medicare for their investors’ benefit and to the detriment of seniors.

Soon after the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley launched its sculpture garden, a local philanthropist offered to add to the collection. “Donald Green, a gentleman who was very philanthropic to the Ligonier Valley, reached out to SAMA to see if we would be interested in having another