Vermont news and information

Vermont is poised to become the fourth state to allow doctors to help terminally ill patients die. A bill approved Monday night by the state House would allow Vermont doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication.
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Food service companies and hospitals say the move toward healthier food options on hospital menus and cafeterias is shaping purchasing practices, food contracts and business strategies.
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Vermont may have a reputation as a small, laid-back state best known for maple syrup and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but the task facing Lindsey Tucker is almost as large as the state's Green Mountains. The deputy commissioner of the state's health insurance exchange, Vermont Health Connect, faces the...
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“Pentagon struggles with high cost of healthcare” contains many misrepresentations and untruths. “The cost of military healthcare has almost tripled since 2001” is misleading in that the reported...
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A group of Vermont doctors and mostly Republican lawmakers gathered Wednesday to warn that if Vermont goes ahead with its plan to push toward a Canadian-style, single-payer healthcare system, the state will ''regulate the private practice of medicine in Vermont out of existence.''
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Vermont became the first state in the country Monday to let people without healthinsurance see how much they would have to pay to get coverage through the federal health overhaul beginning next year.
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Dr. Howard Schapiro has been named interim president of the University of Vermont Medical Group at Fletcher Allen and interim senior associate dean of clinical affairs at the UVM College of Medicine, both in Burlington.
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A pair of new reports from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology deserve your click-throughs.
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A leading advocate for single-payer healthcare in Vermont is pushing legislation that would require that hospital board meetings be subject to the state's open meeting law.
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Six states were awarded nearly $300 million by HHS to implement payment and delivery changes to their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program plans.
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