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May 27, 2011

Vermont Governor Signs Single-Payer Healthcare Law 
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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a healthcare reform bill Thursday that
will make Vermont the first state in the nation to offer single-payer
healthcare. The Vermont Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aims
to stem the rising cost of healthcare and provide universal coverage.
Gov. Shumlin held a signing ceremony in Montpelier.

Gov. Shumlin: "We gather here today to launch the first single-payer
healthcare system in America, to do in Vermont what has taken too long:
have a healthcare system, the best in the world, that treats healthcare
as a right and not a privilege. Most importantly, a healthcare system
that is sustainable, that spends our healthcare dollars making
Vermonters healthy, not on insurance company profits, and not on waste
and inefficiency. We will get this done in Vermont."



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