Vermont Single-Payer Healthcare Bill Has Momentum

[midnight]

NEWS ALERT FROM THE VERMONT WORKERS' CENTER - HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT CAMPAIGN

Public Senate Hearing Shows Overwhelming Support For Universal Healthcare

Montpelier, VT -- Statehouse -- Vermonters from all over the state turned out for a major public hearing on Vermont's new universal healthcare bill, H.202. The Vermont Senate Health & Welfare Committee held the hearing on the bill in the main chamber of the Statehouse one week after H.202 passed in the Vermont House of Representatives by a 92 - 49 vote. Over fifty Vermonters testified overwhelmingly in support of the bill and demanded bold action to begin treating healthcare as a human right, provided as a public good.

Peg Franzen, President of the Vermont Workers' Center, testified at the event saying:

"As we go down this road, we must be guided by the plight of Vermonters who pay for the failures of this market-based system with their health - their physical and financial health. Human rights principles offer that guidance, and they are included in this bill as the foundation of our new healthcare system. Human rights principles will enable us to ensure that each step we take towards a new system is a step in the right direction, the direction of a universal, equitable healthcare system that works for all of us." ...http://blog.buzzflash.com/

I might be wrong, but I was thinking that anyone trying to out champion corporate America could use this as their message...

[msongs]

1. this will help us get single payer in California - it is GOOD for businesses to have single payer!!

[cali]

2. yes, there's strong support here for single payer

but I don't see it elsewhere in the country.

[Agent William]

3. This is how universal healthcare will start in the US..

Oh damn, I hope I'm not jinxing it by saying that, haha.