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Dr. Dynasaur is a publicly funded healthcare program in the U.S. state of Vermont, created in 1989. [1] Vermont had an estimated 140,000 people under age 18 (90,000 under 300% above the Federal Poverty Level (FPL)). Dr. Dynasaur covered 56,000 of these uninsured.
The Department of Community Health was created in 1996 through an executive order merging Department of Public Health (as Community Public Health Agency), Department of Mental Health, Medical Services Administration from the Department of Social Services, responsibility for Liquor Control Commission, Licensing, Monitoring and Accreditation and Division of Occupational Health from Department of ...
The bill would require the United States Department of Health and Human Services to submit weekly reports to Congress about the how many people are using HealthCare.gov and signing up for health insurance. [67] These reports would be due every Monday until March 31, 2015, and would be available to the public. [68]
The state also had to align Green Mountain Care with provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed by the United States federal government in 2010, which required the creation of a health care exchange in individual states. To launch fully, Green Mountain Care would have had to gain approval from the federal government to ...
A state health agency (SHA), or state department of health, is a department or agency of the state governments of the United States focused on public health. The state secretary of health is a constitutional or at times a statutory official in several states of the United States. The position is the chief executive official for the state's ...
The Vermont Department of Health is a government department responsible for the health of the U.S. state of Vermont. It is a sub-division of the Vermont Agency of Human Services. [1] As of March 2017, the Department of Health is led by Mark Levine, MD. Dr. Levine was appointed the Commissioner of Health by Vermont state governor Phil Scott. [2]
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
The Vermont marketplace web site was developed by CGI Group. [1] Enrollment via the marketplace began on October 1, 2013. [2] Mark Larson, Commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA), said there were more than 30,000 people who logged in during the first four days of October. [3] Larson stepped down from his position in March ...