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Hebert Authors Op-Ed on Taxing Physicians Featured in Times Argus, VT Digger

September 29, 2016 by Brittany Willette

James Hebert, M.D., UVM professor of surgery, authored an editorial discussing the gross underfunding of Medicaid in the state of Vermont and a newly-proposed 2.35 percent tax on independent physicians, which threatens to put non-hospital employed doctors “out of business and leave some Vermonters without care.”

James Hebert, M.D., UVM Professor of Surgery. (COM Design & Photography)

(FEBRUARY 19-23, 2016) James Hebert, M.D., UVM professor of surgery, authored an editorial discussing the gross underfunding of Medicaid in the state of Vermont and a newly-proposed 2.35 percent tax on independent physicians, which threatens to put non-hospital employed doctors “out of business and leave some Vermonters without care.”

Read the editorial from the Times Argus and VT Digger.

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