Vermont for Single Payer

***This blog is a reflection on the Frontline series, Sick Around the World, a documentary that looks at five different health care systems (UK, Japan, Germany, Taiwan & Switzerland). None of them are perfect and all have lessons for us, but all of them cover all their citizens at less cost.  Eric’s comments pertain to [...]

By: Melinda Moulton, CEO/Redeveloper of Main Street Landing & Single Payer Supporter
Testimony provided to Health and Welfare committees, Jan. 12, 2010

For over 26 years Main Street Landing has provided 100% Health Coverage for our employees and their families at no expense to them. Main Street Landing pays 23% of our payroll toward health insurance [...]

Ann Raynolds is a single payer activist in Norwich.  Below are excerpts from her interview with Senator Dick McCormack, the primary sponsor of the single payer Senate  bill (S.88).   Senator McCormick sees some rays of hope for the present legislative session in Montpelier in terms of his single payer bill, but he also reminds us [...]

Ann Raynolds is a single payer activist in Norwich. Below are excerpts from her interview with Senator Dick McCormack, the primary sponsor of the single payer Senate bill (S.88). Senator McCormick sees some rays of hope for the present legislative session in Montpelier in terms of his single payer bill, but [...]

John Bloch, VT for Single Payer supporter from Montpelier, listened in on a health care hearing overview of the health reform bills that have been introduced and sent us these observations.
Rep. Paul Poirier was given more than an hour to go over his bill H.510 “An act relating to a public health care [...]

This week Progressive legislators introduced a new Single Payer bill (H.491). This bill proposes to create a single-payer health care system in Vermont to promote health, to prevent chronic health conditions, and to contain costs. They also released the statement below identifying the criteria that must be included in any proposal they support.
Progressives Outline Principles [...]

By: Ellen Oxfeld, VT for Single Payer, Supporter
Single payer makes sense because everyone is included.  We all pay into one pot, and when we are sick, we are sure we will be taken care of.  It’s that simple.  But politicians like to find complicated ways of avoiding simple solutions.
A popular solution with some policy makers [...]

By: Meg Brook, VT for Single Payer, Supporter
As I listen gather information on health care options from letters to the editor, opinion pieces, debates, testimony and more there seems to be a lot of emotion around the ideas of a Single Payer system or a Public Option. With so much information out there I decided [...]