Single Payer: Health Care Freedom for Everyone.
The Latest
- Universal Primary Care Bills Introduced in Vermont! Click here to read details. And click here for a summary of the official study results. Click here to see our FAQ for Universal Primary Care.
- Hear Vermonters speak out for Universal Primary Care and health care for all Vermonters at April 2017 Health Care Town Hall in Montpelier.
- Why is primary care so important? Check out this recent Channel 17 discussion. Also, see these two short videos:. Video 1: "Making Primary Care Better. Video 2: What Is The Primary Care Crisis.
- Compare health care prices in the United States and other industrialized countries
- Read about A Decade of Activism and the history of Vermont's single payer movement in Vermont Life Magazine and Solutions Journal
- Read what Canadian business people think about a single payer system.
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Vermont Voices & Opinions
Letters to the Editor
- August 07, 2017
Current health care proposals aren't the real answer - June 08, 2017
Misdirected Anger
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Editorials
- September 21, 2017
Single Payer Myths - July 20, 2017
Opinion: Who Does Congress Represent? - June 15, 2017
Vermont Health Care Lacks a System - May 25, 2017
Single payer benefits
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The Latest From the Single Payer Blog
- Obstacle #1 to health care for all Vermonters: FUD
- A single-payer healthcare system? I'm all for it!
- Stick with Act 48; no contingency plans needed
- A Tale of Four Countries—and the Lessons They Provide for Vermont Health Care Reform
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On the Road to Single Payer
Single payer healthcare in Vt -- what went wrong, and what's up next? Listen to Dr. Deb Richter's January 2017 interview
Shumlin administration presentation on their view of obstacles to implementing single payer (December 2014).
[Click here to access full report and appendices]
What Does Act 48 Do?
MYTH BUSTERS! answers to common myths about single payer coming to Vermont.
Read Professor Hsiao's article on lessons from Vermont
Statement of Principles
We support a universal health care system for the State of Vermont, one that includes all Vermonters, offers free choice of providers, is progressively financed, decoupled from employment, affordable for all, and pays for all necessary care out of public funds; a system which retains the private delivery of health care and has a publicly accountable budget process to ensure adequate capacity to meet the health care needs of all Vermonters.