VSP Vision Coverage Open Enrollment Is Here!
Open enrollment is from February 1 to February 28, 2023!
When you enroll in VSP vision coverage, you get quality eye care, convenient access to local eye doctors, and eyewear with low out-of-pocket costs.
VSEA Says Employees Deserve A Voice In Any Discussion About Future Of Burlington State Office Building
VTDigger reports on the State exploring the sale of the state office building at 108 Cherry St. in Burlington.
“The state as an employer really ought to be thinking about how to re-envision the use of state office space,” said Steve Howard, executive director of the Vermont State Employees’ Association. “And that should be a full discussion with the frontline employees who use that office space.”
VSEA’s Week In Action Newsletter: January 27, 2023!
FY24 State Budget: Largest In Vermont History
Next Legislative Dinner Topic Is “Safety And Security”
POSTPONED: Presentation Exposing The Disadvantages Of Medicare Advantage Plans
District 6 Board of Trustees Ballots Due February 7
Mark These Dates!! Important Upcoming Union Events
2023 Executive Branch Steward Trainings Announced
VSP Vision Coverage Open Enrollment Coming In February
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POSTPONED: Presentation Exposes The Disadvantages Of Medicare Advantage Plans
On Monday, February 6, Dr. Marvin Malek, past president of Vermont Physicians for a National Health Program (VT PNHP), will give a presentation on the privatization of Medicare.
This is a change from the original date of January 25.
The program, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Vermont, will take place at 5:30 pm, in the Hayes Room at Kellogg Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Dr. Malek will discuss Medicare Advantage, DCEs, and the new ACO/REACH program. The event is co-sponsored by VT PNHP, Vermont Health Care for All, VT State Employees Association, and Vermont Workers’ Center.
For the first 20 years after its implementation in 1965, the Medicare program reimbursed hospitals and doctors directly for the care they provided to Medicare enrollees. Beginning in 1985, some Medicare recipients were given the option of electing to have their benefit managed by a private company, currently known as the Medicare Advantage program. Last year, officials in the Medicare program announced that by the year 2030, they would be involuntarily enrolling the remaining Medicare enrollees into another managed care program—the ACO/REACH program.
The goal of the February 6 program is to discuss the impacts of these privatization initiatives on the care that Medicare beneficiaries receive, on the costs Medicare beneficiaries will be facing, and the impacts of these changes on the financial stability of the Medicare program.
The program will be recorded by Onion River Community Access and will be available online later at https://www.orcamedia.net.
What’s Happening At The State House This Week?
January 24 – January 27, 2023
VSEA’s Legislative Team is once again publishing an online, weekly schedule of hearings and testimony about issues important to state employees and to the services you deliver.
Here is this week’s VSEA meeting-of-interest schedule.
Link to find any legislative committee’s live stream page.
Note: Sometimes a meeting will start late, or won’t stream live for one reason or another, but visit the committee’s page a few hours afterward to see if the meeting you were interested in has now posted for viewing.