2011 Vermont Code
Title 02 Legislature
Chapter 25 JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ON HEALTH CARE REFORM
§ 902 Duties

§ 902. Duties

(a) Beginning in the interim of the 2005 legislative session through July 1, 2011, the commission shall:

(1) monitor the development, implementation, and ongoing operation of health care reform initiatives as defined in 3 V.S.A. { 2222a and the initiatives contained in No. 191 of the Acts of the 2005 Adj. Sess. (2006);

(2) study areas of health care reform as required by the general assembly; and

(3) receive input and make recommendations, generally, to the house committees on health care and on ways and means, the senate committees on health and welfare and on finance, and the general assembly regarding the long-term development of policies and programs designed to ensure that, by 2009, Vermont has an integrated system of care that provides all Vermonters access to affordable, high quality health care that is financed in a fair and equitable manner, including the following:

(A) extending universal access to diagnostic or other services to all Vermonters;

(B) methods of reducing the cost of health insurance or providing alternative coverage through Catamount Health to individuals who pay 10 percent or more of their gross income for premiums and cost-sharing or medical expenses;

(C) strategies for reducing the cost of health insurance or providing alternative coverage through Catamount Health to individuals in the individual or other high cost markets; and

(D) determining needed analysis and criteria for implementing a health insurance requirement by January 1, 2011 if less than 96 percent of Vermonters have health insurance by 2010, including methods of enforcement, providing proof of insurance to individuals, and any other criteria necessary for the requirement to be effective in achieving universal health care coverage.

(b) Nothing in this section shall modify the jurisdiction of the health access oversight committee to monitor Medicaid and Medicaid waiver programs.

(c)(1) The commission may request analysis from the department of Vermont health access, the department of banking, insurance, securities, and health care administration, and other appropriate agencies. The agencies shall report to the commission at such times and with such information as the commission determines is necessary to fulfill its oversight responsibilities.

(2) The agency of administration or designee, the agency of human services, and the department of banking, insurance, securities, and health care administration shall submit monthly progress reports on Catamount Health and the Catamount Health assistance program. For Catamount Health, the reports shall include enrollment, projected enrollment, and other information as requested by the commission. For the assistance program, the reports shall include revenue and expenditures for the prior months, enrollment and projected enrollment, projected expenditures related to enrollment for the fiscal year, demographic statistics for participating individuals, an analysis of any effect on employer conduct, and other information as requested by the commission. (Added 2005, No. 191 (Adj. Sess.), { 21; amended 2009, No. 156 (Adj. Sess.), { I.2.)