While The Delta Isn’t What Floats My Boat . . . . Dennis Wyatt
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I love California.
But I’d be lying to say that the Delta despite its vastness, uniqueness and being ground zero for California water politics that make up the topic of the lion’s share of my home bookshelves, is at the top of the charts.
I might think differently if I was into boating, waterskiing, fishing, bird watching, leisurely Sunday drives or exploring the nooks and crannies of old river settlements. I get why the mountains were calling John Muir whether they are snow-capped peaks in the Sierra or endless barren summits in the desert.
One of the initiatives to come out of the Gov. Peter Shumlin administration was a dramatic overhaul of the state’s health care payment system, now known as OneCare. But’s its struggling to move forward, and one well-known critic says the system is overrun by bureaucracy and a lack of transparency.
In an effort to make health care more affordable, Vermont backed a private company’s mission to create a new system that pays health care providers in monthly payments using a mix of funds from Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance companies. The idea has been to focus on quality of care overall, not payments based on individual services offered to patients the traditional fee-for-service model.