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RACHEL MADDOW: Vermont’s Medicare for all single payer plan Vermont has taken up Obama’s challenge and is voting to install a single payer Medicare for all plan. It will cut Vermont’s state expenses $580 million and is supported by Republican mayors.

WPTZ Doctors Say It Would Save Money, Provide Better Treatment MONTPELIER, Vt. — Hundreds of health advocates and lawmakers rallied for a single payer health system inside Vermont’s Statehouse Saturday afternoon. The sweep of support comes two days after Vermont’s House of Representatives approved a bill for a single payer system. There was little room […]

By Daniel Staples, Times ArgusStaff Writer – Published: March 27, 2011 PHOTO: More than 100 supporters of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s proposed single-payer health plan converged on the Statehouse Saturday. The group, many of them medical professionals and students, were joined by the governor and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who proclaimed Vermont could lead the way […]

WCAXMarch 26, 2011 – Montpelier, Vermont Advocates of a single payer health care system in Vermont rallied at the state house Saturday. It came following the passage of a single payer bill in the House this week. It had the feel of a labor rally, and in fact many of the advocates of single payer […]

Burlington Free Press Written by  Nancy Remsen, Free Press Staff Writer 11:21 PM, Mar. 24, 2011| MONTPELIER — After a night and day of debate, the House voted 92-49 Thursday to approve a bill that could set the state on the road to creating a first-in-the-nation consolidated health insurance system that offers coverage to all […]

By Peter HirschfeldVermont Press BureauMONTPELIER — Plenty of legislative proposals this year will engender opposition. None will instill the fear that Gov. Peter Shumlin’s health-care bill has wrought on opponents of his single-payer concept. Late last Wednesday evening, in a cramped Statehouse meeting room, a crowd of more than 50 single-payer opponents listened to an […]

Burlington Free Press Written by The Associated Press MONTPELIER — Lawmakers have taken the first step toward a single-payer state health care system, with a House panel voting to set up a five-member board to design a benefit package and figure out how the system would work. The House Health Care Committee’s 8-3 vote in […]

The New England Journal of MedicineWilliam C. Hsiao, Ph.D. The United States faces two major problems in the health care arena: the swelling ranks of the uninsured and soaring costs. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) makes great strides in addressing the former problem but offers only modest pilot efforts to address the […]

By Peter HirschfeldVermont Press BureauMONTPELIER — When Kate Farrington’s mother lost her job, Farrington lost her health insurance. The young woman from Brattleboro is now confronting the relapse of a gynecological condition that, left untreated, could result in lifelong pain and an inability to have children. Since Farrington lacks the thousands of dollars needed to […]

NEAL P. GOSWAMIBennington Banner Monday March 14, 2011 BENNINGTON — Dozens of Vermonters offered thoughts on health care reform in Vermont to members of the House and Senate Health Care Committees during a statewide interactive hearing Monday. The meeting, held at 15 Vermont Interactive Television sites across the state, was largely dominated by supporters of […]