healthcare

Statement on the Green Mountain Care financing and benefits debate

Posted 01/27/2012

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

Community Roundtable on Healthcare In Brattleboro

May 25, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

What should VERMONTERS with a WHOLE HEALTH VISION KNOW & DO about Health Bill H2O2 ?

Come to a COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE Wednesday May 25, 2011 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Come at 6:30 p.m. for Social Time & Tea Marlboro Graduate Center
28 Vernon Street Brattleboro, Vermont

With the Health Bill H202 being signed by Gov.Shumlin on 5/26/2011

Vermont is at an exciting time!!

Come and join the exploration of how all voices can be at the table, representing the needs and values of all Vermonters.

Short introductions by members of various local organizations (see below),

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

Posted 05/05/2011

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

Press Release: Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Welcomes Conference Committee Reconciliation of H.202

Posted 05/03/2011

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.

Press Release: Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Welcomes Passage of Universal Healthcare Bill in Senate

Posted 04/26/2011

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

"Health reform Activists push for addition to bill" April 16 Times Argus/Rutland Herald

Posted 04/20/2011

Health reform Activists push for addition to bill
By Thatcher Moats

VERMONT PRESS BUREAU - Published: April 16, 2011
MONTPELIER — Activists worried that the health care reform bill pending in the Legislature has been watered down to please business interests came to the Statehouse on Friday to remind lawmakers of the “original intent” of the legislation.

OP-ED: "Beyond the market: Why we must treat health care as a public good"

Posted 04/19/2011

Beyond the market: Why we must treat health care as a public good

By James Haslam
Published Rutland Herald/Times Argus: April 17, 2011

Vermont is in the midst of a human rights crisis that has been brought on by allowing the market to control one of the most important parts of our lives: our health.

HEARING: Providers Show Overwhelming Support For Universal Healthcare

Posted 04/07/2011

Providers Show Overwhelming Support For Universal Healthcare

MAY 1: Healthcare Is A Human Right March & Rally

May 1, 2011 - 11:00am - 2:00pm

may1poster_0_0.jpgJoin thousands of Vermonters from all over the state as we build a movement for Vermont to be the first state to have universal healthcare!

March will begin at City Hall at 11am followed by a noon rally at the Statehouse.

For more info and to sign up:
http://www.workerscenter.org/may1

To purchase a copy of this beautiful poster, go to:
http://www.workerscenter.org/store

Press release: Public Senate Hearing Shows Overwhelming Support For Universal Healthcare

Posted 04/01/2011

Public Senate Hearing Shows Overwhelming Support For Universal Healthcare

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