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Democratic Caucus - Rising Prescription Drug Prices 01/12/2016

Ahead of the State of the Union, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra (D-CA-34) and Congressmen Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-35) and Peter Welch (D-VT) hold a press call to discuss new plans to investigate rising prescription drug prices in 2016.

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Veritas: Election Results 11/07/2014

Host Brett Gaskill is joined by others in a conversatoin on election results. Sponsored by greenmountainpatriots.org

Veritas: Alternatives to Government Controlled Healthcare 10/03/2014

Host Patricia Crocker speaks Brett Gaskill, Dan Treat and Diane Tardif on their reasons and experience of choosing 'Health Saring Accounts' instead of joining Vermont Health Connect. greenmountainpatriots.org

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Veritas: The Failure of Vermont Health Connect: What do we do now? 09/05/2014

Host Patricia Crocker speaks with Dan Feliciano (L), candidate for Vermont Governor, on one of the major issues he will be addressing, healthcare. Sponsored by Green Mountain Patriots. greenmountainpatriots.org

Dan Feliciano has spent his career at the crossroads of finance, operations, and technology–teaching, coaching & mentoring clients in strategy, finance, and operations. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he has worked for the Medical College of Virginia, Cigna Healthcare, Aetna, and GE Healthcare IT. Dan has a broad and extensive background in healthcare from provider, to payer, to healthcare IT. He has successfully led numerous turnarounds and strategic initiatives ranging from the creation of new solutions to automate financial, healthcare, and ecommerce transactions. Additionally, he has led the development of integrated dynamic portals (to track and pay claims), implementation of Business Process Management systems and the redesign of service center’s yielding millions of dollars in benefits. At a national insurance company, Dan redesigned a service center using a combination of process redesign, process improvement, and technology to improve productivity and quality by more than 20%. At a national healthcare insurer, he led the development of the straight thru processing system to auto adjudicate claims and data to improve decision making, reduce errors and reduce costs and redesigned, in less than three months, a Service Call Center saving $2.65M, after one time charge adjustments.
At another healthcare insurer, Dan was responsible for utilization management and reporting. In this role, he improved utilization, disease management modeling, financial reserving, costs and outcomes.

Veritas: A Better Way to Provide Medical Care to the Poor 08/01/2014

Host Pat Crocker speaks with Dr. Alieta Eck on health care issues.

Alieta Eck, MD (New Jersey) graduated from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy and the St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She studied Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and has been in private practice with her husband, Dr. John Eck, MD in Piscataway, NJ since 1988. She has been involved in health care reform since residency and is convinced that the government is a poor provider of medical care. She testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress in 2004 about better ways to deliver medical care in the United States. In 2003, she and her husband founded the Zarephath Health Center, a non-government free clinic for the poor and uninsured that currently care for 300-400 patients per month utilizing the donated services of volunteer physicians and nurses. Dr. Eck was the 2012 President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and serves on the board of Christian Care Medi-Share, a faith based medical cost sharing ministry. She is a member of Zarephath Christian Church. She and her husband have five children, one being an ophthalmology resident in St. Louis, MO. She is the 2014 Republican nominee for the US Congress in NJ-12.

Senator Bernie Sanders: Primary Care in Vermont 04/24/2014

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hosts state leaders, Mary Wakefield, who heads the Health Resources and Services Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services, and Associate Administrator Jim Macrae to discuss what the senator has called a crisis in primary care in the United States.

A Sanders provision in the Affordable Care Act authorized $11 billion to build, expand, and operate Federally Qualified Health Centers. The locally-run centers offer affordable primary, dental and mental health care and low-cost prescription drugs. In Vermont, there were only two community health centers a decade ago. This year, 11 centers across the state will serve about 163,000 patients. That’s more than one in four people in the state and one of the highest participation rates in the country.

Sanders, who chairs a Senate panel on health care, has introduced legislation to attract more doctors and other health care providers to primary care. His bill would boost funding for community health centers; dramatically increase opportunities for medical school graduates to go into family medicine; raise Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care providers; and expand National Health Service Corps loan and scholarship programs for primary care providers.

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