Vermont for Single Payer

By: Ellen Oxfeld, Member of Addison County Citizens for Single Payer

On November 4th, Addison County Citizens for Single Payer sponsored a forum on Canadian health care. Professor John Seavey, of the University of New Hampshire recounted the history of the Canadian health care system. If you would like your cable station to show this lecture, it is available on Vermont Media Exchange.

By: Dr. Deb Richter

You may have heard of single-payer. But if you haven’t, or if you haven’t heard enough, this is the place to be.

Single payer actually is shorthand for a publicly-financed universal health care system. “Universal” means it is accessible to every citizen and “publicly-financed” means it is tax-supported and publicly budgeted.