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Vermont Lawmakers to Hear from Business on Health Care

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Montpelier, VT – Vermont businesses will get a chance to weigh in on Governor Peter Shumlin's plans for health care reform. WAMC's Tristan O'Neill reports...

Two legislative committees will hold a joint hearing today from 5 to 7 p.m. in Statehouse room 11 to talk about a bill under consideration to begin implementing the ambitious reform agenda approved in principle last year.

The plan calls for Vermont to adopt a health care exchange or marketplace called for under the federal health reform passed two years ago.

By 2017, it seeks to move Vermont beyond the federal reforms and toward a single-payer health care system.

Tristan O'Neill, WAMC News.

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