healthcare is a human right

DATE: January 27, 2012

TO: Robin Lunge, Director of Health Reform

FROM: Vermont Workers’ Center - Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign

CC: Anya Rader-Wallack, Dr. Karen Hein, Con Hogan, Albert Gobeille, Dr. Allan Ramsay, Georgia Maheras, Mark Larson, Sen. Claire Ayer, Rep. Michael Fisher,

SUBJECT: Statement on the Green Mountain Care financing and benefits debate

Green Mountain Care Board is heeding our demand for a transparent and participatory process to building our healthcare system. Now its our job to participate.   It’s crucial that we have a good turnout for this meeting! We know the opposition to quality healthcare for all is organizing and is mobilizing, but we know they’re not the majority.  We need to make sure our message of equity is heard loud and clear, and that the opposition doesn’t successfully promote a financing plan that hurts small businesses and is built on the backs of poor and working class people.

This is your chance to be a part of a truly historic moment! Because of the grassroots organizing of the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign over the past two years, Vermont is poised to be the first in the nation to adopt a universal healthcare system which meets human rights principles. The next year will be tremendously exciting as we expand into the Put People First! People's Budget Campaign. We are looking for great volunteers to join us in making media to tell our stories and the stories of our communities.

Final Passage of Vermont Universal Health Care Bill
Marks Success of a Growing Human Rights Movement

Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Welcomes Conference Committee Reconciliation of H.202
Principle of Universality Restored Through the Efforts of Vermonters

Montpelier, VT -- Statehouse -- Members of the grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign cheered on Tuesday, May 3, as the conference committee voted to accept a reconciled version of the universal healthcare bill, H.202.

Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Welcomes Passage of Universal Healthcare Bill in Senate
Major statewide rally on May 1st will call for adoption of strongest possible final version

Public Senate Hearing Shows Overwhelming Support For Universal Healthcare

Forum Leans Toward Single-Payer Health Care

by NEAL P. GOSWAMI
Posted: 03/14/2011 10:53:40 PM EDT

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.