2005 Vermont Code - § 9401. — Policy

§ 9401. Policy

(a) It is the policy of the state of Vermont to insure that all residents have access to quality health services at costs that are affordable. To achieve this policy it is necessary that the state ensure the quality of health care services provided in Vermont and, until health care systems are successful in controlling their costs and resources, to oversee cost containment.

(b) It is further the policy of the state of Vermont that the health care system should:

(1) Maintain and improve the quality of health care services offered to Vermonters.

(2) Promote market or other mechanisms that contain or reduce increases in the cost of delivering services so that health care costs do not consume a disproportionate share of Vermonters' incomes or the moneys available for other services required to insure the health, safety and welfare of Vermonters.

(3) Encourage regional and local participation in decisions about health care delivery, financing and provider supply.

(4) Promote market or other mechanisms that will achieve rational allocation of health care resources in the state.

(5) Facilitate universal access to preventive and medically necessary health care. (Added 1991, No. 160 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 11, 1992; amended 1995, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)