GREEN MOUNTAIN CARE
Green Mountain Care
The universal care in Vermant was to be enacted in form of a single-payer system which largely borrowed on a Health System Reform design authored by the consultant. The health system reform design was a proposal by the consultant to provide three design options which are required by Act 128. The main aim of the said act was to create a healthcare system that would focus on wellness and prevention, control medical costs, and give Vermonters equal access to a benefits package that was standard. However, the said form of care had some prospects that made it not succeed in implementation. In 2014, Shumlin, who had been reelected, declared that the universal care was not going to be attained at that time given that it was likely to cause an economic shock that was too high for Vermant. This is more so the case given that there was no financial plan that had been put in
…individuals benefited from the said act. Essentially, the ACA insurance coverage was likely to increase utilization which would then overwhelm state budgets and the healthcare system (Komonski et al., 2017). In addition, the ACA insurance coverage did not provide insurance to all people. For this reason, many people remained uninsured owing to the perceived cost of insurance - given that the said insurance plan required applications in form of tax credits. Further, like the GMC, ACA insurance was not going to cover some people. Specifically, ACA provided cover only for the uninsured, leaving behind individuals who had federal plans (Tolbert et…
