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An insurance card is not an appointment

Regulators approved far less growth than hospitals requested, and UVM Medical Center shelved a $130 million surgical center as wait times remained long.

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This commentary is by Matt Swenson, who is the founder of Omnidex Solutions, a risk diagnostics company. He lives in Vermont. Vermont’s healthcare debate has spent a decade stuck on the wrong question. The political class argues about who should pay the bill. Patients are asking something simpler: Can I actually see a doctor? Insurance is not care. Coverage is not capacity. A promise from the government does not create a primary care appointment…

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An insurance card is not an appointment

Vermont's healthcare debate keeps arguing over who pays. The real crisis is that regulators are already deciding who gets seen — and calling it cost control instead of rationing. Read the story on VTDigger here: An insurance card is not an appointment.

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