Tues, Nov 20: The Path to Single Payer: State by State? The Campaigns in Vermont and New York

Director, Vermont Workers’ Center

Research Director, PNHP-NY Metro

While single payer advocates continue to push for an improved Medicare-for-all nationally, campaigns for state-based single payer systems have gained a lot of momentum in the last few years. A total of 25 states have introduced such bills at some point. Last year, Vermont passed a three-part bill aimed to lay a path to single payer. In New York, the newly revised bill doubled its number of co-sponsors in the State Senate in just a few months. How are these campaigns building a base to advocate for single-payer systems both on the state and national levels?

Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center

10 Union Square East (btw 14^th & 15^th St.) 2^nd Floor Auditorium

Co-Sponsor: Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY