Welcome to "Toward Evidence-Based Health Care Reform." From this page you can download copies of our periodic e-memo with facts, figures, examples and analysis of current issues in health care reform in Vermont.

The memo is written by Jeanne Keller, Keller & Fuller, Inc. Ms. Keller has worked on health care cost and quality issues on behalf of consumers and employer-sponsors of health plans for over 25 years.

Click here to review and download The Vermont Health Security, Safety, and Quality Improvement Plan, a comprehensive reform proposal for universal coverage, cost containment and quality and safety improvement.

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Volume IV - March through April 2008

WE are having the recession (Apr 17, 2008 - 34.4kb)
Cant Afford More Savings (Apr 09, 2008 - 33.6kb)
More Mandates More Studies (Mar 17, 2008 - 28.2kb)

Volume III – January through December 2007

Healthy Vermont Skepticism (Dec 07, 2007 - 37.7kb)
Another Inconvenient Truth (Jul 23, 2007 - 21.6kb)
Whats New Catamount (May 11, 2007 - 42.5kb)
Public Hearing Testimony (Apr 20, 2007 - 52.8kb)
Paths Cross at Assumption Junction (Apr 07, 2007 - 118.2kb)
Status of Reform No. 2 (Feb 15, 2007 - 33.2kb)
Status of Reform No. 1 (Feb 03, 2007 - 52.6kb)
THE MEDICAID COST SHIFT (Jan 31, 2007 - 144.5kb)
PBS Series Highlights Reengineering of Health Care (Jan 01, 2007 - 37.3kb)

Volume II – January through December 2006

The Cost Shift Worsens (Dec 11, 2006 - 27kb)
Proposed Catamount Health (Jul 20, 2006 - 212.6kb)
Open Letter to Conference Committee (Apr 20, 2006 - 40.4kb)
Bouquets and Brickbats (Apr 06, 2006 - 49.4kb)
The Other Elephant in the Room (Apr 03, 2006 - 43.2kb)
What Ever Happened to Common Sense (Mar 24, 2006 - 36.3kb)
Help Us Understand H 861 (Mar 10, 2006 - 28.2kb)
Assumption Junction (Feb 28, 2006 - 44.2kb)
Best Intentions and Unintended Consequences (Feb 16, 2006 - 201kb)
What the Expert Told the Legislature (Jan 23, 2006 - 237.1kb)

Volume I – July through December 2005

All Volume I - 2005 (Dec 31, 2005 - 36.4kb)
What Went Wrong With Cost Containment (Dec 05, 2005 - 40.6kb)
What the AARP Survey Doesn't Say About the Uninsured (Nov 28, 2005 - 26.3kb)
Facts and Reforms - Quality & Access (Nov 18, 2005 - 35.2kb)
Facts and Reforms - Cost (Nov 11, 2005 - 50.1kb)
Insurance Reform Is Not Health Care Reform (Nov 07, 2005 - 38.6kb)
VT Behind on Patient Safety (Sep 22, 2005 - 44.9kb)
Hospital Budgets and Cost Shifting (Sep 19, 2005 - 41.5kb)
What 30 percent Savings (Sep 07, 2005 - 124.7kb)
Why a Single Payer is Impossible in Vermont (Sep 06, 2005 - 33kb)
VT Fourth Lowest for Impact of Uninsured on Premiums (Jul 21, 2005 - 36.3kb)

Legislative Briefs and Factsheets

Donna Read This DRAFT.DOC (Jun 25, 2008 - 21.9kb)
Evidence Doesnt Support VITL Tax 2 (Apr 15, 2008 - 20.5kb)
Evidence Doesnt Support VITL Tax 1 (Apr 15, 2008 - 29.5kb)
Legislatures Cost Impact Study (Jun 04, 2007 - 87.5kb)
Catamount Health Prelim Cost Estimates (Jan 27, 2007 - 132.1kb)
Review of Draft Regulations for Catamount Health (Jul 20, 2006 - 33.5kb)
Template Letter to BISHCA.doc (Jul 18, 2006 - 204.5kb)
Four Simple Changes (Apr 22, 2006 - 175.4kb)
Comparing public to private solution (Apr 20, 2006 - 120.5kb)
What if cost estimates are wrong (Apr 07, 2006 - 24.6kb)
Catamount (Sen. ver. 3.1) Compared to MA (Apr 07, 2006 - 259.9kb)
Testimony VT Retail to Sen Finance (Apr 05, 2006 - 25kb)
Testimony BRS to Sen Finance (Apr 05, 2006 - 112.5kb)
Senate Alert 03 23 (Apr 05, 2006 - 17.6kb)
Cost Shift by Hospital.xls (Apr 05, 2006 - 302.5kb)
Cost Shift Charts (Apr 05, 2006 - 853.3kb)
Catamount Compared to Typical Plans.xls (Apr 05, 2006 - 21.3kb)

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