University of Vermont Medical Center

Um, I met her in Burlington, Vermont.

She was part of the University of Vermont Medical Center's, um, uh, team who plans this women's health event.

It was their 29th year of this event.

I got to be the keynote speaker of it.

I met her in Burlington, Vermont.

She was part of the University of Vermont Medical Center's team who plans this women's health event.

It was their 29th year of this event.

I got to be the keynote speaker of it.

I don't think it's something we should be proud of that we have the most expensive healthcare in the country, which actually because of our U.S. healthcare system means we have the most expensive healthcare in the world.

Is the Green Mountain Care Board right? It's just been in the news just in the last day that they are saying we need more big cuts in the hospitals across Vermont, particularly at the UVM Medical Center.

Owen Foster, the chair of the board, voted against that, saying that it's going to cut into access and quality care.

Obviously, Steve Leffler, the president, also believes that.

What do you think? Does the Green Mountain Care Board write what they called for?

So I put a bill forward in the last biennium that would have addressed administrative spending.

The UVM Medical Center has more executives and administrators per every clinical staff person than is typical for a hospital.

So I think we really need to look at where those cuts are happening.

And that's what drove L.L. Bean out of the city and other big businesses, too.

UVM Medical Center, you're an expert at this.

They're in trouble.

They're cutting costs.

It's critically important in my view that to Vermont that UVM and the Medical Center succeed because they are huge economic drivers.

If you're Steve Leffler, the CEO of UVM Medical Center, what do you do?

Okay, so I think Steve Leffler is doing a decent job relative to his predecessors.

I don't know him, but I think he's doing the best he can, and he's cutting costs where they can be cut.

They put us up there with the newborns.

And there happened to be a float that was from UVM Medical Center who has some sense to the woman.

So that's how I'm going to put it.

So the woman asked me what my opinion was.

And I knew just by the look on her face.

And I quickly sat up before I woke up Samara.

She said, we are going to have to transfer you to UVM Medical Center.

Samara has a 5.7 centimeter mass behind her right eye.