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Reviving Progressive Activism: How a Human Rights Movement Won the Country’s First Un

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On May 26, 2011, Vermont became the first U.S. state to enact a law for a universal, publicly financed health care system. As Governor Shumlin signed Act 48,[1] he set Vermont on course toward implementing a single payer system by 2017. This first breakthrough in the decades-long struggle for universal health care in the United States—after thwarted or pared down federal efforts by the Clinton and Obama administrations—alters the landscape of health reform advocacy in this country and has the potential to set in motion a state-based dynamic for progressive reforms. National and state commentators have compared Vermont to the province of Saskatchewan, which half a century ago spearheaded the establishment of universal health care in Canada.
The passage of Vermont’s universal health care law is equally significant for the development of progressive activism in times of federal and state austerity measures, dismantling of the public sector amidst a rising wave of privatization, and a roll-back of labor rights that have trapped progressives in a defensive mode. The Vermont breakthrough was made possible by an emerging human rights movement, based on intensive grassroots organizing and principled policy advocacy, and as such could serve as a model for progressives elsewhere in devising proactive strategies for advancing economic and social rights.


Vermont will be the first state to have a single payer health care system! It is called Green Mountain Care and hopefully it will serve as a model for other states who want to implement a health care system that benefits everyone.

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Vermont will be the first state to have a single payer health care system! It is called Green Mountain Care and hopefully it will serve as a model for other states who want to implement a health care system that benefits everyone.

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Reviving Progressive Activism: How a Human Rights Movement Won the Country

Awhile back I heard Bernie Sanders speak to this. Good for Vermont.

Now we shall wait for the cries of socialism!
 
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Awhile back I heard Bernie Sanders speak to this. Good for Vermont.

Now we shall wait for the cries of socialism!

The Tenth Amendment gives each state the power. If the people of a state want this, they can have their state legislature pass it and make it law. If the people of another state don't want it, then they can do the same and prevent it from becoming law.

More than likely, eventually each state will address this for their citizens.

Good for Vermont. Do it on a state level and I support it, even in my own state, because if done correctly it will provide true access to the best medical care in the world. Try it on a Federal level however, and I'll fight it.
 
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