Vermont Is Designing Nation’s First Universal Health-Care System

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates As states open insurance marketplaces amid uncertainty about whether they are a solution for health care, Vermont is eyeing a bigger goal, one that more fully embraces a government-funded model. The state has a planned 2017 launch of the nation's first universal health care system, a sort of modified Medicare-for-all that has long been a dream for many liberals. Vermont's plan combines universal coverage with new cost controls in an effort to move away from a system in which the more procedures doctors and hospitals perform, the more they . . .