Studies to be completed before the start of the 2007 legislative session, and to be delivered to the General Assembly not later than January 15, 2007, by the Commission on Health Care Reform in consultation with the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA):
Economic and financing studies that shall:
   1. Review alternative ways of financing universal health care coverage based on either private insurance or a single payer, including employer assessments, payroll taxes, income taxes, premiums (either employment-based or independent of employment), or other revenue options;
   2. Identify macroeconomic consequences of choices in health care financing, such as changes in the number of employed individuals, the average wage, distribution of wages, rate of growth of gross state product, rate of growth of personal income, attractiveness of the state for relocating businesses, and the mix of employment types;
   3.  Identify relationships between financing mechanisms and the macroeconomic consequences if quantifiable;


    4.  Apply the policy analysis and indicators in this subsection above to the specific health reform proposals considered in the 2006 legislative session.

Fiscal year 2007 studies to be carried out by the Commission on Health Care Reform:

  1. Research support for state efforts in health care reform and Medicaid program review.
  2. Activities in monitoring state health care information technology activities including: 

                    A.  A review of state government health care information systems,
                    B.  Continued reviews of the status of Vermont health care system information systems including those used in physicians’ practices, hospitals and other health care entities,
                    C.  Continued support of activities of Vermont’s “blueprint” initiative for chronic care and of Vermont information technology leaders (VITL).