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The Senate approved the Health Care Reform bill, Thursday morning in a vote of 60-39, in a victory for President Obama.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, who returned home following the vote said, “The bill is not as strong as I wanted and I will work to improve it, but it begins to move this country toward the [...]
Burlington, Vt. – Rep. Peter Welch on Tuesday morning at a Burlington press conference will outline a new provision expected to be in the House version of health care reform legislation that will allow young people to remain on their parents’ health insurance policies until the age of 27.
Welch will discuss his support for the [...]
Washington, D.C. - President Obama announced yesterday from the Rose Garden at the White House that a milestone had been reached in health care reform and the final committee had reached an agreement with both Democrat and Republican approval.
He explained that this agreement had been reached over several weeks through the work of five committees [...]
Williston, Vt. – A crowd of about 200 concerned Vermonters gathered in the auditorium at Williston Central School for a Health Care Forum hosted by Congressman Peter Welch, D-Vt., on Saturday morning, Oct. 10, 2009.
Welch gave an illustrative slide show and then allowed the crowd to line up and speak personally on health care reform where [...]
Washington, DC – Governor Jim Douglas joined Blueprint for Health Director Craig Jones, M.D., and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the White House, Thursday, September 17, 2009, in announcing a new federal initiative using Vermont’s innovative Blueprint for Health as a model. The new initiative will enable Medicare to join Medicaid and commercial insurance [...]
Government officials are taking some extra precautions for flu season this fall as concern for H1N1 flu virus is renewed with the upcoming school year.
New guidance for Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) has been issued by officials from the Dept. of Health, Dept. of Education, and National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, for planning and responding [...]
Fletcher Allen Health Care’s Emergency Backup Put to the Test
Burlington, Vt. – When a tree crashed through power lines in Burlington Tuesday morning, August 17th, it cut power to the northern end of the city and Fletcher Allen Health Care found itself going back in time. The hospital had recently left most paperwork behind for [...]
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.S. Health Resources and Services Administrator Dr. Mary Wakefield, R.N., toured several health centers in Vermont, Monday, August 17.
Discussing health care reform legislation and the role of community health centers in providing primary care, they met with various health care workers. They visited the Health Center in Plainfield, the Hardwick Dental Clinic, [...]
August 16, 2009
Hundreds of Vermonters packed lively and passionate but civil town meetings Saturday in Rutland and Arlington, Vt.
Both sessions were in welcome contrast to raucous town-hall-style meetings outside the state that have been disrupted and distracted by angry, shouting hecklers. Saturday’s meetings had only one moment in Rutland, where two men shouted at each other briefly on the [...]
Saturday morning, August 15, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will host two Health Care Town Hall meetings. First in Rutland, Vt., at 9:30 a.m. and then at 1 p.m. in Arlington, Vt.
Sanders addresses the possibility for disruption, commenting in a blog Thursday, “I don’t recognize the raucous and rowdy town meetings in other parts of [...]
