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Lawmakers create 16-member primary care steering committee, weigh folding existing advisory groups
Summary
The H.126 conference draft creates a 16-member Comprehensive Primary Care Steering Committee to advise state agencies on access, workforce and models; lawmakers debated overlap with existing BluePrint and Green Mountain Care Board advisory bodies and signaled possible consolidation later.
Conference negotiators on H.126 added a new Comprehensive Primary Care Steering Committee, assigning it a broad advisory role on access to, delivery of and payment for primary care services across Vermont.
The committee chair argued the change reflects the centrality of primary care in the state's health system, saying, "more than 50% of the care that is delivered in the state of Vermont is in primary care," and that "if half of the healthcare that's delivered in the state is primary care, perhaps primary care should have a significant seat at the table."
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