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Single Payer: The most fiscally responsible way to cover all Vermonters.

Who We Are...
www.VermontforSinglePayer.org is the website of Vermont Health Care For All (VTHCA), a Vermont non-profit corporation (501(c) 3), established in 2003 with the purpose of educating the public about the advantages of a universal publicly financed health care system for Vermont. VTHCA is overseen by its board of directors:

Dr. Deborah Richter, Physician, Montpelier, VT - President
Ellen Oxfeld, Professor at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT - Vice President
Terry Doran, Retired Journalist, Montpelier, VT - Treasurer
Ethan Parke, Policy Analyist, Montpelier, VT - Secretary
Paul Millman, CEO Chroma Technology, Rockingham, VT
Melinda Moulton, CEO Main Street Landing, Huntington, VT
Bill Eichner, MD Opthalmologist, Middlebury, VT
Ann Raynolds, Psychologist, Quechee, VT
John Bloch, Chair of Alliance of Retired Persons, Montpelier, VT
Don Mayer, CEO Small Dog Electronics, Waitsfield, VT
Stu Williams, MD Family Physician, Berlin, VT

10/31/2026

The paper blizzard that characterizes our fragmented commercial healthcare system, riddled with middlemen, is the problem....

10/31/2026

10/30/2026

Our healthcare should never have been for profit.

10/30/2026

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/surveys/2026/oct/state-health-
Survey Highlights
• The uninsured rate for working-age adults (ages 19–64) rose between 2024 and 2026.4 The increase was statistically significant. During this time, both ACA marketplace coverage and individual insurance market enrollment declined. Medicaid coverage rates also fell, a decline that began after 2022.
• Uninsured rates rose for young adults between 19 and 34 and for low-income working-age adults — those with household incomes under 200 percent of the poverty level ($31,300 for an individual and $64,300 for a family of four). Both groups experienced declines in ACA and Medicaid coverage.
• Nearly half of working-age adults, 46 percent, were inadequately insured in 2026: 11 percent were uninsured, 12 percent had a coverage gap during the year, and 23 percent were underinsured, meaning they had coverage but their plan didn’t provide affordable access to care.
• More people delayed or avoided getting health care because of the cost, with the rate climbing from 46 percent in 2022 to 50 percent in 2026.
• Nearly three-quarters (73%) of adults age 19 and older believe the federal government has a responsibility to ensure all Americans have coverage, including 45 percent of Republicans, 93 percent of Democrats, and 76 percent of Independents.

This brief presents findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey to describe the state of Americans’ health insurance coverage in 2026.

10/29/2026

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