Unrest at state health care commission leads to membership change

Dispute over vetting process for spending millions leads to removal of the panel’s two public appointees

By: Meera Mahadevan

Outlets: Granite State News Collaborative

Published: January 12, 2026

Words: 1,255

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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A state health care commission — created to oversee millions of dollars in funding to benefit consumers following a recent wave of hospital acquisitions and consolidation — is being rocked by change in leadership and membership.

And two of the commission’s members are proposing to prevent the N.H. Executive Council from overseeing its expenditures and removing funding for academic research related to the hospital mergers.

Yvonne Goldsberry, a longtime …

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