2018 VT Senate race: on Health Care

Brooke Paige: Reject single-payer healthcare and Vermont Health Connect

Brief Outline of the Issues: Healthcare
• Reject Single Payer as an unnecessary intrusion into personal and professional relationship between patient and provider - Prevent Single Payer takeover of healthcare providers.
• Reform or discontinue Certificates of Need (CON) process which will increase competition, availability of services and reduce healthcare costs.
• Implement Tort Reform to Protect Providers from artificial and frivolous lawsuits, reduce liability insurance costs and ultimately reduce healthcare costs.
• Replace Vermont Health Connect (VHC) with an open marketplace operated by the state Insurance Department to provide information on available commercial policies allowing side-by-side comparison of rates, coverage, deductibility, co-pays, limits and exclusions.

Lawrence Zupan: End mandate; start interstate competition