Labor and Workforce

Act 128 Health System Reform Design: Achieving Affordable Universal Health Care in Vermont

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The Vermont Legislature passed Act 128 and commissioned this report because they recognized that they must find systematic solutions to the intertwined problems of cost and access that were within Vermont's broken health system. Act 128 set forth the clear and ambitious goals to achieve universal health insurance coverage, provide every Vermont resident with an adequate standard benefits package and equal access to health care, control rapidly escalating costs, and establish a primary