The Latest

• Universal Primary Care Bill Introduced in new session!  Click here to read bill details.  And click here for a summary of the official study results. 
   
• FAQand talking points for Universal Primary care.
   
• Hear Vermonters speak out for Universal Primary Care and health care for all Vermonters at  public hearing at VT Statehouse (January 23, 2018). 
   
• 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.
   
• Dr. Deb Richter testifies before US Senate Committee on importance of primary care and need for Medicare for All system. Read about it here.
   
• Read about consequences of medical debt on families-- even those with insurance

• 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.     

Action Alerts

Medicare for All: What's Stopping Us?  Reiginting the Fight for Universal Health Care in Vermont and the United States. Watch insurance industry whistle blower Wendell Potter speak at Burlington event (6/12/19).

Support Universal Primary Care (H.129)!  Write to your own representative and house leadership and ask them to take up this bill in the next session. Health care should not be a back burner issue in Vermont. 

Download our information card on universal primary care here. Please help spread the word!  Click here for more talking points!

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Write A Letter To The Editor

Our goal is to have at least one letter supporting universal publicly financed health care in each paper every week. The letter to the editor section is one of the most highly read parts of the paper. We’ve made it really easy for you to write a letter including providing some important facts and the address to send it to. Click here to write a letter to your paper today. Click here to read what other Vermonters are writing about Single Payer.  Click here to read answers to the latest myths about single payer!

 

Vermont Voices & Opinions

Letters to the Editor

• June 20, 2019
  All Americans deserve decent health care
• May 24, 2019
  Do we need Blues, MVP? We do not.
• May 21, 2019
  Paying Price for Lack of Health Insurance
• May 20, 2019
  Since when is saving $378 million too expensive?

See all »

Editorials

• April 01, 2019
  Health care affordability
• March 24, 2019
  Vermont Health Care Headed in the Wrong Direction
• March 19, 2019
  The health insurance rabbit hole
• March 14, 2019
  Guest editorial: State Auditor answers criticism

See all »

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? 
 

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.