Larner College of Medicine Class of 2029 medical student Patrick Payne joined dozens of Vermonters who shared their thoughts and experiences about access to primary care, and the cost behind it, in testimony before the Vermont House Committee on Health Care on April 30.
The meeting came as the house health care committee is working to pass a bill that would give all patients access to primary care without any cost sharing. The bill proposes a new system, where insurers would send a monthly payment to a primary care provider, covering any routine services.
“I ask of you as a future Vermont physician and future primary care provider, to think of a future that is free of the complexities so we can care for each other the way that we really desperately want to,” Payne told the committee.