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- Premiums will rise 7.3% in 2026.
- The increase follows state intervention that cut costs and prevented 15%–20% hikes.
- Vermont Education Health Initiative (VEHI) attributes the savings to aggressive measures by the Green Mountain Care Board and to legislation capping hospital charges for specialty drugs, projecting total premium expenditure of $398 million next year with 20% covered by school employees.
- Health benefits now consume about 15% of school budgets.
