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Re: Vermont Health Exchange

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Vermont's State Auditor has released a report on the cost and operational capabilities of Vermont Health Connect. So far, it's $126 million and still not working as needed.

http://vermontbiz.com/news/april/hoffer ... -286323177" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And, while we're on the subject, Blue Cross Blue Shield is ready to bill the state $3 - $5 million for unpaid premiums done through Vermont Health Connect.

"Much of the $3 million to $5 million is related to accounts that customers canceled with VHC, but the exchange never communicated that to the insurer, according to a state official. That continues to happen because the technology to do so was never developed. Instead, the state had to rely on error-prone manual workarounds. In addition, there are millions of dollars being held by a third-party payment processor that could partially close the gap."


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Feds are auditing as well

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Re: Vermont Health Exchange

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No plans to mergeat this time but RI/Conn/Vt have held talks.


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Re: Vermont Health Exchange

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What's this? Vermont Supreme Court Justices supporting free markets?


Insurer lawsuit accuses Green Mountain Care Board of overreach
Jun. 22, 2016, 11:57 am by Erin Mansfield

http://vtdigger.org/2016/06/22/insurer- ... -286323177" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Gary Karnedy represented MVP at a hearing at the Vermont Supreme Court on Tuesday. He said the board denied the price increase because it was mad at MVP for submitting its original price increase request so late in the year, and he said the decision violated the company’s constitutional right to due process. He asked the court to overturn the denial.

Karnedy also asked the Vermont Supreme Court to eliminate three parts of Act 48 that tell the board to regulate insurance prices based on what is “affordable,” “promotes quality care” or “promotes access to health care.” He said the standards are vague and unidentified and were unconstitutionally given to the board.

“The Legislature provided only empty platitudes in the health care law,” Karnedy said. “What do those terms mean? Under (legal principles) you need to provide basic criteria for an administrative agency to be able to make those determinations.”

Bridget Asay, the state’s solicitor general, represented the Green Mountain Care Board. She said the board denied MVP’s request “because MVP’s own conduct and the timing and the size of the increase made it unfair, unjust and inequitable to the plan members.”

Justice John Dooley questioned why the Green Mountain Care Board needed to stop the small pool of consumers from paying a price increase of 27.4 percent. “This is not in any sense a mandatory plan,” he said. “Why aren’t they entitled to make that choice?”

Justice Marilyn Skoglund told Asay: “It just sounds like they were really angry at Agri-whatever.” She said the board mentioned in its decision how the company mixed up the terms “grandfathered” and “traditional,” and she said that “seems like a completely inappropriate factor.”
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Gruber again...

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Bubba wrote:Gruber again...

https://vtdigger.org/2017/09/03/smith-g ... a7SOUEpCaN" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
grrrrrr....

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all of you who voted for this are who he's referring to here since apparently it isn't abundantly clear...

if you voted for obama, you voted for obamacare and you were the "stupid american voter" that he counted on to make the ACA happen...hard to spin it any other way...at what point do you guys wake up and realize that you are but ( barely) useful idiots whose concerns are not only never being addressed but continuously exploited for political gain at your expense...?
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Re: Vermont Health Exchange

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madhatter wrote:
...at what point do you Gump voters wake up and realize that you are but ( barely) useful idiots whose concerns are not only never being addressed but continuously exploited for political gain at your expense...?
Clarification.
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Re: Vermont Health Exchange

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Coydog wrote:
madhatter wrote:
...at what point do you wake up and realize that you are but ( barely) useful idiots whose concerns are not only never being addressed but continuously exploited for political gain at your expense...?
Clarification.
:?c apparently not yet...
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Re: Vermont Health Exchange

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Seems as if some folks want to kill competition in medicine in Vermont.


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Here's another attempt to kill the competition

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