Tevye Kelman and Manny Mansbach
We must realize the potential of Vermont’s universal health care law
As health care and other costs of living spiral ever further out of people's reach, our legislators and the State's Green Mountain Care Board have a unique opportunity to protect Vermont residents from rising health care prices, once and for all.
Vermont's Act 48, passed in 2011, makes ours the only state in the country with a law codifying the human right to health care and creating the Green Mountain Care Board, charging it with implementing a publicly financed, universal health care system.
Health care is a human right
Consider anyone you have cared about - a friend, family member, co-worker, neighbor - who has had or will face a life-threatening illness. I don't believe that some of these folks should receive helpful health care while others with fewer resources should not. Your cousin or sibling with cancer...