Big week in Vermont. This morning Senators Patrick Leahy, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Peter Welch are going to join with our new Governor Peter Shumin to discuss health care reform. Specifically, they will discuss how to get the necessary federal waivers in order to move Vermont to a single payer health care system. Then tomorrow, Harvard School of Public Health Economics Professor William Hsiao will unveil the three models our legislature commissioned.
Sorry for the short diary but I want to get this up quickly as ORCA public access TV is live streaming this morning's conference and plans on livestreaming tomorrow's report by Dr. Hsiao.
LIVESTREAM HERE!
okay, press conference is over now. Here is a summary and check out Dr. Hsiao's report tomorrow.
Here is Senator Sanders' statement
and here is an interview with Pete Shumlin from last summer when he was running for governor. Good background on how we got here.