Patrick Flood: ACO is not health care reform

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Patrick Flood, the former commissioner of the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living and former deputy secretary of the Agency of Human Services. He recently retired from Northern Counties Health Care.
The Green Mountain Care Board is getting ready to approve the budget for the single accountable care organization OneCare Vermont, which over the next five years will assume responsibility for managing th