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Where your tax dollars go. $72 million spent to date in building the State's website.
Where your tax dollars go. $72 million spent to date in building the State's website.
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Re: Vermont Health Exchange
Which still is not fully functional.
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Relax, you could be in Massachusetts where the web site was scrapped after spending a huge amount. All applicants are put on medicaid right now as no one can tell who is eligible. It is free money after all, it comes from the hapless tax payers.
Edit: Here is an article on the cost to fix it, not on what they already BLEW on it! http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/05/08/f ... 0-million/
Edit: Here is an article on the cost to fix it, not on what they already BLEW on it! http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/05/08/f ... 0-million/
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Re: Vermont Health Exchange
From the Ruthland Herald on 07/20/14
By Robin Lunge who is Vermont's director of health care reform.
Vermont had two choices when it came to implementing the federal Affordable Care Act: Go with the one-size-fits-all federal exchange or set up its own exchange using federal money.
Vermont chose the latter, and over the past few weeks there have been a number of voices saying that was the wrong decision. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but there is one very important reason Vermont went with its own exchange: Not doing so would have cost hard-working Vermonters hundreds if not thousands of dollars in additional insurance expenses each year.
For decades, Vermont has been a leader in health care reform. That’s a good thing. It’s why we’re one of the healthiest states and have one of the lowest uninsured rates. State programs like Catamount and VHAP were making insurance more affordable for Vermonters years before anyone had even heard of Obamacare.
When the smoke cleared after years of fighting over the Affordable Care Act, it became clear that in some cases subsidies offered through state programs like Catamount and VHAP were more generous than what was to be available under the new federal law. That was a problem for Vermonters. All of a sudden we were faced with the very real prospect that the federal Affordable Care Act would actually make care less affordable for many middle-class Vermonters.
Vermont had a choice: Accept the subsidies available through the federal exchange and let insurance costs for many Vermonters increase, or set up our own state-based exchange and offer additional state subsidies to keep insurance costs from rising. There being no way to offer additional state subsidies through the federal exchange, the only option was to set up a state-based exchange.
That wasn’t a small decision for Vermonters. Had Vermont gone with the federal exchange, Vermonters would have seen an added $1.85 million in insurance costs in 2014 alone.
On the individual level that’s real money. A Vermonter making $34,000 per year would have seen additional insurance costs of more than $500 in 2014. A Vermont family with a combined income of $70,000 per year would have seen an additional expense of over $1,000 per year. It’s up to the critics of our decision to go with a state-based exchange to explain why imposing those additional insurance expenses on Vermonters would have been a prudent course of action.
The rollout of Obamacare was rocky throughout the country, and Vermont was not immune. It may be good politics for individuals to argue that Vermont should have gone with the federal exchange, but it would have been extremely bad policy that would have cost hard-working Vermonters lots of money.
By Robin Lunge who is Vermont's director of health care reform.
Vermont had two choices when it came to implementing the federal Affordable Care Act: Go with the one-size-fits-all federal exchange or set up its own exchange using federal money.
Vermont chose the latter, and over the past few weeks there have been a number of voices saying that was the wrong decision. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but there is one very important reason Vermont went with its own exchange: Not doing so would have cost hard-working Vermonters hundreds if not thousands of dollars in additional insurance expenses each year.
For decades, Vermont has been a leader in health care reform. That’s a good thing. It’s why we’re one of the healthiest states and have one of the lowest uninsured rates. State programs like Catamount and VHAP were making insurance more affordable for Vermonters years before anyone had even heard of Obamacare.
When the smoke cleared after years of fighting over the Affordable Care Act, it became clear that in some cases subsidies offered through state programs like Catamount and VHAP were more generous than what was to be available under the new federal law. That was a problem for Vermonters. All of a sudden we were faced with the very real prospect that the federal Affordable Care Act would actually make care less affordable for many middle-class Vermonters.
Vermont had a choice: Accept the subsidies available through the federal exchange and let insurance costs for many Vermonters increase, or set up our own state-based exchange and offer additional state subsidies to keep insurance costs from rising. There being no way to offer additional state subsidies through the federal exchange, the only option was to set up a state-based exchange.
That wasn’t a small decision for Vermonters. Had Vermont gone with the federal exchange, Vermonters would have seen an added $1.85 million in insurance costs in 2014 alone.
On the individual level that’s real money. A Vermonter making $34,000 per year would have seen additional insurance costs of more than $500 in 2014. A Vermont family with a combined income of $70,000 per year would have seen an additional expense of over $1,000 per year. It’s up to the critics of our decision to go with a state-based exchange to explain why imposing those additional insurance expenses on Vermonters would have been a prudent course of action.
The rollout of Obamacare was rocky throughout the country, and Vermont was not immune. It may be good politics for individuals to argue that Vermont should have gone with the federal exchange, but it would have been extremely bad policy that would have cost hard-working Vermonters lots of money.
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Well now...THIS should make all Vermonters feel better. One of the key economists who helped design Obamacare is being hired by the Shumlin administration to assist with the development of a single payer system for Vermont.
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The man who referred to passing Obamacare through lack of transparency and the stupidity of the American people is also a paid consultant to Vermont as it tries to move to a single payer system.
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Here's a big surprise. Vermont Health Connect continues to have problems and costs are rising.
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Bubba wrote:Here's a big surprise. Vermont Health Connect continues to have problems and costs are rising.
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TOO Bad, the RHODE Island site works great.
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Can't wait to see what the Single Payer system will cost taxpayers. Probably like the school tax, screw those who work and make a living and give it away to the rest. Vermont will have a deeper debt than the US government because they can't print the money.
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Gov. Peter Shumlin is backing away from a commitment to pass a single payer health care financing plan in Vermont in 2015.Dr. NO wrote:Can't wait to see what the Single Payer system will cost taxpayers. Probably like the school tax, screw those who work and make a living and give it away to the rest. Vermont will have a deeper debt than the US government because they can't print the money.
He just made the announcement at a press conference in Montpelier: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20 ... /141219988
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It's only halftime but here's the score:SnoBrdr wrote:Gov. Peter Shumlin is backing away from a commitment to pass a single payer health care financing plan in Vermont in 2015.Dr. NO wrote:Can't wait to see what the Single Payer system will cost taxpayers. Probably like the school tax, screw those who work and make a living and give it away to the rest. Vermont will have a deeper debt than the US government because they can't print the money.
He just made the announcement at a press conference in Montpelier: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20 ... /141219988
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Bubba wrote:It's only halftime but here's the score:SnoBrdr wrote:Gov. Peter Shumlin is backing away from a commitment to pass a single payer health care financing plan in Vermont in 2015.Dr. NO wrote:Can't wait to see what the Single Payer system will cost taxpayers. Probably like the school tax, screw those who work and make a living and give it away to the rest. Vermont will have a deeper debt than the US government because they can't print the money.
He just made the announcement at a press conference in Montpelier: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20 ... /141219988
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Interesting...I get an e-mail from the site daily and read various articles without any issue at all.SnoBrdr wrote:Bubba wrote:It's only halftime but here's the score:SnoBrdr wrote:Gov. Peter Shumlin is backing away from a commitment to pass a single payer health care financing plan in Vermont in 2015.Dr. NO wrote:Can't wait to see what the Single Payer system will cost taxpayers. Probably like the school tax, screw those who work and make a living and give it away to the rest. Vermont will have a deeper debt than the US government because they can't print the money.
He just made the announcement at a press conference in Montpelier: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20 ... /141219988
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Malicious software includes 24 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 17 domain(s), including 122.155.168.0/, finalbooster.co.vu/, secondkilloo.co.vu/.
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The Shumlin administration spent approximately $1.6 million preparing this puppy just to (thankfully!) cancel it in the end.
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