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• The F Word: Vermont Ever Closer to Single-Payer Healthcare

  May 9, 2011

  The Senate and the House of Representatives agree: single-payer health care is the only way to provide real coverage for all. Insurance companies are never going to do the right thing and put people before profits, so the only option is to go around them, and politicians in both houses have voted to create a real health care system.

  • cigna
  • f word
  • governor
  • green mountain care
  • health care
  • healthcare
  • house
  • Insurance
  • mary gerisch
  • nurses
  • Senate
  • shumlin
  • single payer
  • The F Word
  • Vermont
  • vermont workers center
  • Wendell Potter

• Everybody In, Nobody Out: Rallying For Universal Healthcare in Vermont

  May 7, 2011

  We've followed Vermont's struggle for single-payer healthcare for a while now, and this week the grassroots movement saw victory as the State Senate passed the bill, which now heads to Governor Peter Shumlin for his signature. Last week, Sam Mayfield attended a rally in support of the bill in Montpelier and sent us this report on what Green Mountain Care means to the people of that state.

  • bernie sanders
  • health care
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  • nurses
  • single payer
  • Vermont
  • vermont workers center