Shumlin renews call to keep Vermont Health Connect

Gov. Peter Shumlin says Vermont Health Connect is working and that abandoning the exchange now would be a bad decision.

The backlog of people seeking to change the life circumstances of their insurance policies is down to 1,200 — from more than 3,000 in June — and nearly 9 in 10 customers seeking to report a life change “experience a smooth process,” he said.

Shumlin said the rate of transaction errors on the exchange has dropped from 3.5 percent to 2 percent, and he credited the exchange with bringing the rate of Vermonters without health insurance down from 6.8 percent to 3.7 percent.

“Staff are now able to resolve urgent and complicated cases much more quickly,” he said at a news conference last week. “The number of escalated cases — those that cause Vermonters longer delays and frustrations — has dropped from more than 250 earlier this spring down to 19.”

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