Vermont Workers Center – Healthcare-NOW

Video: The Vermont Breakthrough!

How a Human Rights Movement Is Winning a Healthcare System that Puts People First This video tells the story of a successful grassroots campaign organizing for our human rights. This video is co-produced by the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) and the Vermont Workers’ Center.

VWC on Their Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign

Last night, June 8, Healthcare-NOW! hosted a national conference call featuring members of the Vermont Workers’ Center to discuss their Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign and the impact it had on universal healthcare legislation in their state. If you missed the call but want to hear it, you can download it here (right click…

First Universal Health Care Bill in U.S. Marks Success of Vermont’s Human Rights Movement

By Anja Rudiger for NESRI – On May 5 the Vermont House followed the Senate in passing the final version of a health reform bill that creates a path for a universal, publicly financed health care system in Vermont. Governor Peter Shumlin has confirmed he will sign the bill into law. This makes Vermont the…

May 1st: Healthcare is a Human Right Rally in VT

Healthcare-NOW! has endorsed the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign (HCHR) March on Montpelier, Vermont on May 1st. The HCHR Campaign has built a statewide grassroots movement to make healthcare reform a political inevitability in Vermont. Supporters of the right to healthcare and single-payer are traveling in from across the country to attend this important…

Vermont Workers Center Releases Comments on Dr. Hsiao’s Report

Montpelier, VT — State House — The Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign today released comments on the healthcare system design proposals Dr. William Hsiao presented to the Vermont legislature in January. The comments, along with several questions, focus on the human rights requirements for Vermont’s healthcare system, passed into law by last year’s Act…