Gov. Peter Shumlin speaks at a news conference alongside Green Mountain Care Board Chair Al Gobeille. File photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDiggerThe Green Mountain Care Board has issued a statement justifying its vote Wednesday to approve the all-payer health care model and announcing for the first time it will seek to increase how much Medicaid pays doctors.The board issued a news release Monday containing a new document with what it called justification for the vote it took last week, when it held a 30-minute meeting that was originally scheduled to be a three-hour deliberation.The “justification” decision is dated Oct. 31 but outlines arguments the board did not address during the Wednesday meeting — or during the public comment period that preceded it — and says the decision from Oct. 26 is still effective.One of the new arguments is that the all-payer model will increase how much Vermont Medicaid pays doctors and …
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