Episode 39

Health care is affordable, but can Vermonters pay?

October 15, 2020: The state has worked for decades to create a more affordable health care system.

Yet, according to a recent investigation by the State Auditor's Office, health care costs are increasing faster than Vermonters' wages. Is there a remedy?

Here is a copy of Doug Hoffer's report.

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The Montpelier Happy Hour
A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.