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Nurses, please make your voices heard in Montpelier

By
Beth Kiendl
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 — Issue 416

BRATTLEBORO — The Green Mountain Care Board is meeting in Montpelier on Thursday, July 20 at 9 a.m. to consider the Blue Cross/Blue Shield request for a 12.7-percent rate increase. This increase will affect more than 70,000 of our patients, families, friends, and neighbors.

The Green Mountain Care Board's purpose is to oversee our state's health-care system.

This hearing will include actuarial testimony from the insurers and state agencies, followed by time for brief testimonies from the public.

As nurses, every day we see the impact of a health-care system designed as a profit-making commodity rather than as a system serving valuable human lives.

This is a critical time for nurses to show up and be involved. You needn't give testimony. Just come in your scrubs. Let's show the board we care!

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