Student Rally for Single-Payer Health Care in Vermont

Medical, nursing, and public health students from around the country organized a rally to support universal, single-payer health care in Vermont.

The March 26, 2011 event was led by student members of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and co-sponsored by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).

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[RackFocusFilms]

So grateful that Single Payer is back on the table ! Go Vermont ! Go Students!!

[Rixar13]

Thumbs up Vermont ^.... I'm a Green Mountain Boy so count me in... smile :-)

[cjms08]

watch the doctors will threaten to go on strike or move to other states if the bill passes and some people will get scared because they don't know all the facts about single payer and if someone dies they will blame bernie sanders because thats what happened to tommy douglas.

the doctors will say something we could have saved the life of this person if vermont had not changed the law

[claton95]

@RackFocusFilms not just back on the table, it's been passed

[TonikHealthInsurance]

nice information...! thanks for upload this video...!

[NowThePeople]

@pdbosp Also I don't mean to start a "war of words", just having a conversation is all my friend:)

[NowThePeople]

@pdbosp People die everyday and are refused healthcare every single day with the insurance they have now. Such as the case of CIGNA who denied Natalie Sarkisyan a transplant and she died. Or the hundreds of other patients I see a year who are denied coverage by their ins companies. The state of MASS already has a Massachusetts health care insurance reform law since 2006.

[Neosaigo]

"Everybody in, nobody out"

It is not a very good thing for a doctor to say.. because they work in a hospital. XD

[jadedlake]

Those who criticize the single payer/universal HC have a vested interest in the status quo. They are Drs. and CEO along with insurance company executives who have overcharged patients forever. Drs. are scared because the high six and seven figure salaries plus determining delivery of services according to profit will end.

[pdbosp]

Either these kids are rich or plain stupid when it comes to economics. More than 45,000 will die annually when the government tells you what you can or can't have regarding your care. Do they think that they will be the ones making the decision? Do they think that everyone will get everything they want, or even need? I'm from the government and I'm here to help? Good luck Vermont, you're going to need it!

[thereinliestherib]

@booley "Circular logic"? Deductive, actually. The least healthy 5% consume 70% of all HC costs. Now correlate that with rates of 70% obese/overweight, 25% smoking, millions hooked on drugs/alcohol, and non-existent national exercise standards. Do the math, dumbass. Most politicians readily admit that the primary reason for the mandate is to force the healthy to subsidize the exceptionally unhealthy, rather than to address the core cost-source of an unhealthy country.

[thereinliestherib]

@booley HA! Via PPACA the industry stands to greatly benefit from increased cost socialization and forced customers via the mandate. It's in line with the historical model of industrial regulation, whereby industry's acquire legal control over their own regulations, and use that to monopolize consumers rather than protect them. You honestly don't smell the rot of corruption in a bill which requires everyone to buy a heavily monopolized product, just cuz its sold as "progressive"? WOW.