Achieving Universal Coverage through Comprehensive Reform: The Vermont Experience

Publication Year: 
2009

Principal Investigator Ron Deprez and his research team have released early findings from their SHARE project evaluating health reform outcomes in Vermont.  This issue brief, "Achieving Universal Coverage through Comprehensive Reform: The Vermont Experience," reveals evidence that the percentage of Vermont residents aged 0 to 64 with some type of insurance coverage increased by 2.4% between 2005 and 2008 and that most of this improvement came from increases in public coverage.  The brief provides a summary of key lessons learned from the Vermont health reform experience, emphasizing especially the need for funding changes in order to sustain Vermont's reforms in the long term.

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