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Senate Health and Welfare sets session priorities: lower costs, boost primary care and shore up rural hospitals
Summary
Members of the Senate Health and Welfare on Jan. 12 laid out priorities for the coming session—lowering health-care costs, shifting care into primary care settings, supporting rural hospitals and advancing workforce fixes—while flagging a slate of bills to examine; no formal votes were taken.
Members of the Senate Health and Welfare committee met Jan. 12 to set their priorities for the upcoming legislative session, focusing on lowering health-care costs, expanding primary care and protecting rural hospital services, according to remarks recorded by committee speakers.
“I just think we need to continue to focus on bringing the cost of health care in the state of Vermont down,” said Speaker 3, an unidentified committee member, summarizing the group’s top goal. Speakers repeatedly framed cost, access and workforce as the filters they would use to choose which bills to advance.
The committee flagged several bills for early attention, including a primary-care bill (S197), a recovery-residence measure (S157) and proposals on reference-based pricing (referred to in the…
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