RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTHCARE IN THE IDEAL SYSTEM RESOLVED, In order to ensure access to high quality health care services, the Vermont Medical Society urges the General Assembly and the Administration to make the issues related to recruitment and retention of physicians a high legislative priority; The Vermont Medical Society supports the concept that basic healthcare would be available to all individuals as part of the social contract; The Vermont Medical Society supports a simplified payer system to pay directly for services, in which paperwork and administrative issues are minimized, under-reimbursement by Medicaid is addressed; The Vermont Medical Society encourages individuals to take greater responsibility for their personal behaviors and choices to the extent they are able; The Vermont Medical it clear that while Vermont physicians are Society’ s survey makes dedicated to the profession of medicine and the care of their patients, the present system of financing impedes physicians from being able to adequately provide for the health care needs of all Vermonters. (Adopted on October 25, 2008) STEWARDSHIP OF HEALTHCARE Resolved, The Vermont Medical Society endorses the Code of Medical Ethics recent AMA’s guidelines for physicians to fulfill their obligation to be prudent stewards of health care resources; The Vermont Medical Society encourages the Vermont chapters to join their national specialty societies in endorsing the Choosing Wisely measures as ones whose necessity should be questioned and discussed by Vermont physicians and their patients; The Vermont Medical Society will promote the Choosing Wisely initiative and it will encourage the monitoring of the use of the measures within the state and the comparison of Vermont physicians use of the measures with their peers regionally and nationally; The Vermont Medical Society will urge the Green Mountain Care Board and the General Assembly to adopt policies and procedures, including medical liability reforms, that promote leadership in the design of a more efficient delivery system. physicians’ (Adopted October 27, 2012)
RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTHCARE IN THE IDEAL SYSTEM RESOLVED, In order to ensure access to high quality health care services, the Vermont Medical Society urges the General Assembly and the Administration to make the issues related to recruitment and retention of physicians a high legislative priority; The Vermont Medical Society supports the concept that basic healthcare would be available to all individuals as part of the social contract; The Vermont Medical Society supports a simplified payer system to pay directly for services, in which paperwork and administrative issues are minimized, under-reimbursement by Medicaid is addressed; The Vermont Medical Society encourages individuals to take greater responsibility for their personal behaviors and choices to the extent they are able; The Vermont Medical Society’ s survey makes it clear that while Vermont physicians are dedicated to the profession of medicine and the care of their patients, the present system of financing impedes physicians from being able to adequately provide for the health care needs of all Vermonters. (Adopted on October 25, 2008) STEWARDSHIP OF HEALTHCARE Resolved, The Vermont Medical Society endorses the AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics recent guidelines for physicians to fulfill their obligation to be prudent stewards of health care resources; The Vermont Medical Society encourages the Vermont chapters to join their national specialty societies in endorsing the Choosing Wisely measures as ones whose necessity should be questioned and discussed by Vermont physicians and their patients; The Vermont Medical Society will promote the Choosing Wisely initiative and it will encourage the monitoring of the use of the measures within the state and the comparison of Vermont physicians use of the measures with their peers regionally and nationally; The Vermont Medical Society will urge the Green Mountain Care Board and the General Assembly to adopt policies and procedures, including medical liability reforms, that promote physicians’ leadership in the design of a more efficient delivery system. (Adopted October 27, 2012)