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The state can’t fix Vermont’s hospitals by telling them what to do
James Hodge, a Copley Hospital board member, criticizes Vermont's top-down hospital transformation plan led by the Green Mountain Care Board and Agency of Human Services. He argues that centralized control fails due to lack of expertise and proposes a two-step solution involving standardized reference prices to address cost disparities and inefficiencies across hospitals.
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