“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business — not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”
In recent months, the Biden-Harris administration has quietly moved to strip states’ ability to manage their Medicaid programs and is transferring that power into the hands of unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucrats.
Vermont ranks 40th among the 50 states and District of Columbia in the Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade report, dropping from 20th place in the organization’s spring report. Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland received the only grade of A out of the six Vermont hospitals named in the report.
With labor shortages taking place throughout the nation in most industries, Vermont’s nursing sector will look to incentivize the hiring of new nurses in an effort to fill the gap in services.
GOP lawmakers said they’ve spoken to hospital executives who say they are at risk from shutting down as a result of health care workers leaving their jobs over the mandate. They pointed out that the Central Maine Medical Center has suspended some pediatric and other medical services.
Industries that are already seeing record labor shortages are now facing another obstacle — a potential further loss of workers if they choose to impose vaccination mandates.
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Once the focus of health care shifts from healing the patient to chasing the next blockbuster medicinal product, it follows that financial gain should supersede efforts to eliminate this virus. Not surprisingly, it has been 20 months since COVID first surfaced in China, and health authorities still cannot recommend any treatment.
Many people have questioned me on whether I believe health care reform efforts are working in Vermont and if so to quantify it. To accomplish that, it’s important to go back in time and talk about efforts over the past couple of decades to create a baseline.
Wallack was the chief architect and promoter of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s single-payer health care plan during the first two years of his governorship, at which point she abruptly fled the state when she saw it couldn’t be made to work.
There is a plan for such a framework coming together under the banner of “Healthcare For You,” personalized healthcare delivery, developed by Physicians for Reform and the Job Creators Network.
Choices in health insurance decreased as the number of insurers participating in the individual market fell, while insurance premiums increased more than 50% nationally. The results of Obamacare not only have been less choice and competition, but higher premiums for Americans.