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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, […]