Perverse Incentives
In a recent article in vtdigger it was noted that Vermont health insurance rates are among the highest in the nation. Just another painful fact for people to digest who live in a state that is also among the highest for property taxes.
Subsidies do lower the cost of insurance for many Vermonters who pay, on average, $243 a month for an individual marketplace plan. The article describes many of the details about the costs of health care but the only important information comes at the end of the piece when Mike Fisher, Vermont’s health care advocate, states, “Many of us have been looking at this health care financing ‘not-system’ – the way we finance care- have been saying for a number of years that it’s unsustainable and that it can’t possibly continue. But it feels like we’re in a much more acute stage of that.”



