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VT Headlines: well-paid OneCare Vermont to shut down
One care can’t be shut down soon enough. Complete drain on public funds.
Think about it if they were actually useful do you think they’d be shut down?
Seven million dollar tin cup at one care. Guess who made all the profit.
Heads up and on a swivel – the OneCare bondoogle is being swapped out for another bondoogle. Let’s review shall we:
Brattleboro Reformer February 2021: “The State of Vermont has finalized an agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont to add about 13,300 employees covered under the state health plan to the state’s all-payer model program OneCare Vermont. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont administers the state’s self-insured employee health plans and has a contract with OneCare Vermont allowing Blue Cross Blue Shield to add members to the all-payer model.
The addition of state employees is among steps being taken by the state Agency of Human Services to boost participation in OneCare Vermont, as the state strives to meet patient participation requirements. In September, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency working with Vermont on the pilot project, warned the state had failed to patient participation targets in 2018 and 2019.
Federal regulators had set a target of 70 percent participation by the time the six-year program expires in 2022. As of November, participation sat at 42 percent, according to a state report on the system.”
Vermont Digger July 2024: “The AHEAD Model, which Vermont could begin in 2026, aims to reduce health care spending, improve investment in primary care and change how hospitals are paid. But AHEAD — which stands for States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development — is intended to cut health care expenditures, increase investments in primary health care and shift how hospitals are reimbursed for care they provide.
Jenney Samuelson, the secretary of Vermont’s Agency of Human Services, welcomed the development in a press release Tuesday. The decision to select Vermont was an endorsement of “our efforts to advance new flexible payment and care delivery approaches that result in more affordable, accessible and high-quality care for Vermonters, hospitals, and primary care providers selection,” Samuelson said.
The federal government also selected Connecticut and Maryland to join the model. Participating states are eligible for up to $12 million in federal funding to implement the program. ”
Vermont Digger November 6, 2024: “OneCare spends between $13 and $15 million each year on operations, including roughly $7 million on salaries and benefits in 2024, according to financial documents filed with the Green Mountain Care Board, and the organization has faced criticism that it has consumed money while not measurably improving Vermonters’ health or lowering costs for care.”
So, half of OneCare’s budget cost is salaries and benefits (a grifting NGO is the game-o) Under the federal “replacement” model of AHEAD, they may receive $12 million? Good to know taxpayers are supplementing health insurer behemouth BC/BS, healthcare monopoly UVMC networks, State Employee benefit healthcare, as well as footing the bill for Medicaid/Medicare, while the single-payer program overlords
clean up bigly. Racketerring, collusion, and coercion at it’s finest. Any wonder why the healthcare system is imploding into it’s own cesspool of greed and corruption?
…if only healthcare systems were rated on how many walk out….errrrrr…cured…
Just sayin’… medicine and healing are two different things: one is a THING one BUYS (customer satisfaction NO guarantee), and the other is a result, a healed condition, one walks away with… and doesn’t have to go back for another prescription/surgery/or doctor’s appt… go figure… NO medical facitlities have a higher priority than PROFIT…how does that fit in with having someone walk out healed and never coming back again??? thoughts???
The six year experiment call, One Care Vermont, or the all-payer model has been a dismal failure. It did not reach any of its goals and cost more than it saved. Health care in Vermont is unaffordable. Now comes a replacement for One Care Vermont, a twelve year experiment called AHEAD, which most likely be another failure. We cant wait 12 years for relief of outrageous health care costs. Now that Trump has been re-elected and Republicans have taken control , this 12 year experiment may no longer be an option . Seven Days has a very informative article about the dire situation our health care system is in. I urge people to read this article. The problem is now. It needs to be fixed now.
Any way we can get better non biased reporting about the above issues???? Asking for a friend.
One Care was always going to be a failure. We should have just saved our money. Stop allowing the government to put anything between you and your provider!!!!!