The costs will be even higher as all costs are not added in...thanks federal and Vermont state taxpayers..... The Shumlin administration spent about $1.6 million since 2011 to develop a proposal for a single payer health care program that is now on hold... The $1.6 million does not include $250,000 spent on the 2011 report by Dr. William Hsiao, which preceded Shumlin’s tenure as governor, or work done by state employees in the Department of Tax, Finance and Management or members of the Green Mountain Care Board who contributed to the study of single payer. Many of those employees contributed directly to the program’s development, while others worked to anticipate how the program would impact other areas of state government. The $1.6 million also does not include money spent by the Legislature on consultants to help them explore facets of single payer or staff time spent by the legislative Joint Fiscal Office on single payer. The figure will continue to grow as the administration pays out money on existing contracts for work already completed, or that is ongoing to complete a report Shumlin’s team still plans to release at the end of the month. Vermont has paid MIT economist Jonathan Gruber $160,000 of a contract that was reduced to a maximum of $280,000. The University of Massachusetts has a contract with a $317,000 maximum, on which Vermont has paid $151,000 to date..
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:14:21 +0000
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