Peter Shumlin on Health Care

We need a single payer system for all

The jump in premiums is significantly higher than any increase in wages Americans are experiencing in this struggling economy and a burden on businesses at a time when we want to get people back to work. The need for Vermont's first-in-the-nation effort to create a single payer system that guarantees quality health care coverage while holding down the cost of care for individuals, families and employers has never been clearer.

Vermont-wide system of public financing of health care

With Peter Shumlin as Governor Vermont could create a system of public financing of health care that would provide all Vermonters with quality, affordable health care and eliminate the administrative waste of the current system that goes into paperwork and profits, not health care.