single-payer

How the Vermont Workers' Center Pushed the State to Pass Universal Health Care
May 11, 2011
More than a thousand chanting and sign-waving Vermonters marched to the Statehouse two Sundays ago in Montpelier. They formed a sea of red, on account of T-shirts worn by hundreds of members of the Vermont Workers’ Center. [...] The VWC’s relentless activism helped push Vermont where no... Keep Reading »
Senator Sanders Introduces Single-Payer Bill in U.S. Senate
May 10, 2011
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) today introduced twin health reform bills in the Senate and House, both called the American Health Security Act of 2011. The American Health Security Act would establish a single-payer health insurance program funded by federal taxes but... Keep Reading »
Human Right to Health Care Activists Demand Strengthening of Vermont's Reform Bill
April 18, 2011
The struggle in Vermont for a universal, publicly financed health reform bill is intensifying.  The Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign rallied at the Statehouse on Friday, April 15, to demand that Senators put the bill back on track, in line with the original intent to create a universal... Keep Reading »
Beyond the Market: Why We Must Treat Health Care as a Public Good
April 18, 2011
This editorial by James Haslam, director of the Vermont Workers' Center, appeared in the Times Argus and Rutland Herald (Vermont) on Sunday, April 17, 2011. Vermont is in the midst of a human rights crisis that has been brought on by allowing the market to control one of the most important parts of... Keep Reading »
Vermont House Passes Universal Health Care Bill
March 25, 2011
The Vermont House of Representatives passed H.202, a “Road Map to a Universal and Unified Health System” on March 24, 2011. The bill, adapting a proposal by Governor Shumlin, will now move to the Senate. On the anniversary of the market-based federal health reform law, Vermont’s... Keep Reading »
Statewide Health Reform Hearing in Vermont Dominated by Human Rights Supporters
March 15, 2011
Vermont's Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign mobilized people across the state to testify at the statewide public hearing of H.202, the universal health care bill under review in the legislature. The House Health Committee is expected to bring a revised version of the bill to the House floor this... Keep Reading »
The Nation: Vermont's Struggle for Single-Payer Healthcare
March 11, 2011
After years of political frustration, Earl Mongeon had to see it to believe it. Often, when he finishes his twelve-hour night shift at IBM in Essex Junction, Mongeon heads home for breakfast and a few hours of brush clearing on his sixty-acre lot in Westford. In mid-January, the 55-year-old... Keep Reading »