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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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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...?

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.