Vermont health

Source topic or question: Health care

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Lay the foundation for universal healthcare by creating the nation’s first publicly funded universal primary care system—improving health, lowering overall healthcare costs, rebuilding community-based care, and creating the infrastructure needed to expand toward comprehensive universal healthcare over time by exploring partnerships with neighboring states as a way to achieve this in the years to come. This plan will be funded through our Fair Share Tax Proposal, which asks the wealthiest Vermonters to contribute the equivalent cuts from the Big Beautiful Bill. Those who have benefited most from decades of rising wealth and tax cuts should help ensure every Vermonter can access the healthcare they need.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Guarantee free primary and preventive healthcare for every Vermonter by eliminating copays, deductibles, and insurance barriers, making primary care the front door to a future universal healthcare system.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Strengthen healthcare resilience by supporting independent pharmacies, expanding regional purchasing partnerships, maintaining reserves of essential medicines and medical supplies, and reducing Vermont’s dependence on fragile national supply chains and changing federal policies.

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Source topic or question: Democracy, ethics, and the rule of law

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Expand participatory budgeting and community decision-making by giving communities greater direct authority over public spending while supporting locally led planning for housing, economic development, healthcare, and other community priorities.

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Source topic or question: Housing

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End homelessness through a Housing First approach, ensuring every Vermonter has rapid access to safe, permanent housing alongside voluntary mental health care, substance use treatment, employment assistance, and other wraparound services that help people rebuild their lives.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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By making primary and preventive care free and investing in community-based healthcare, Vermont can improve health outcomes while dramatically reducing the need for costly emergency room visits, avoidable hospitalizations, and expensive specialist care. Every dollar we invest upstream in prevention saves money downstream by reducing the burden of chronic disease, improving mental health, supporting healthy aging, and helping people receive care before conditions become emergencies.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Bring back small-town medicine by ensuring every Vermont community has free primary care providers by replacing fee-for-service primary care with direct public funding that gives doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and mental health providers more time with patients and rewards prevention, continuity of care, and healthier communities.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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We will build on these successful models by ensuring every Vermont community has access to a locally based Community Health Team—including primary care providers, community nurses, mental health professionals, community health workers, care coordinators, and independent local pharmacies—working together to keep people healthy before small problems become expensive crises.

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Source topic or question: Taxes, economy, workers, agriculture, and affordability

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By investing in local food systems, we’ll make nutritious food more affordable and accessible, improve public health, and reduce diet-related disease by making healthy food the easy choice. We’ll strengthen our rural communities by creating good-paying jobs across the food economy, keeping more food dollars circulating locally, and ensuring family farms can thrive for generations.

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Source topic or question: Taxes, economy, workers, agriculture, and affordability

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Instead of competing to attract investment from somewhere else, we can invest in the people, businesses, industries, and communities that already make Vermont strong. By helping Vermont businesses grow, connecting local producers with local buyers, expanding local ownership, and producing more of the food, energy, housing, healthcare, building materials, and other essential goods we need here at home, we can create an economy that’s more prosperous, more affordable, and far more resilient.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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By rebuilding small-town medicine, expanding successful Community Nurse programs, and making primary and preventive care free for every Vermonter, we’ll create healthier communities, lower long-term healthcare costs, strengthen Vermont’s resilience, and restore the trusted local healthcare relationships that have always been at the heart of our communities.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Invest upstream instead of paying for crises downstream by expanding preventive care, maternal health, mental healthcare, nutrition, chronic disease management, and early intervention—improving health while reducing costly emergency room visits, avoidable hospitalizations, and expensive specialist care.

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Source topic or question: National security, foreign policy, technology, and veterans

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Protect Vermonters from mass surveillance by prohibiting the sale of sensitive personal information, banning surveillance technologies such as Flock cameras, and preventing AI from being used to monitor lawful political activity, labor organizing, immigration enforcement, reproductive healthcare, or religious practice.

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Source topic or question: Taxes, economy, workers, agriculture, and affordability

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Produce more of what Vermont needs by investing in local food systems, community-owned renewable energy, housing construction, forest products, sustainable building materials, healthcare, childcare, manufacturing, repair industries, and other essential sectors that create good jobs while making Vermont more resilient, self-reliant, and less dependent on fragile national supply chains and corporate giants.

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Source topic or question: National security, foreign policy, technology, and veterans

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Support public-purpose innovation by partnering with Vermont colleges, universities, entrepreneurs, and mission-driven technology companies to develop open-source software, privacy-protecting technologies, cybersecurity, AI for healthcare and scientific research, agricultural innovation, accessibility tools, and other technologies that solve real problems while keeping knowledge, jobs, and innovation rooted in Vermont.

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Source topic or question: Education

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Build on Vermont’s community school approach by supporting schools to become locally designed hubs for education, healthcare, mental-health support, childcare, food access, adult learning, recreation, and community services. Each school will determine its own priorities through collaboration among students, families, educators, municipalities, nonprofits, and local residents.

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Source topic or question: Education

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Place community-school coordinators in participating schools to build partnerships, identify unmet needs, coordinate services, pursue outside funding, and connect families with assistance. This will ensure teachers are not expected to act simultaneously as educators, social workers, case managers, mental-health providers, and healthcare navigators.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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And by creating a universal system of publicly funded primary and preventive care, we’ll lay the foundation for a future where every Vermonter has access to comprehensive universal healthcare—building it step by step on a strong, affordable, community-based foundation.

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Source topic or question: Taxes, economy, workers, agriculture, and affordability

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Strengthen Vermont’s workforce and innovation economy by expanding apprenticeships, career and technical education, workforce partnerships, and research collaborations between Vermont colleges, universities, technical centers, unions, employers, entrepreneurs, and manufacturers—aligning public research with Vermont’s greatest needs so innovations in areas like Lyme disease, climate resilience, sustainable agriculture, affordable housing, clean energy, and rural healthcare improve people’s lives while creating new Vermont businesses and good local jobs.

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Source topic or question: Taxes, economy, workers, agriculture, and affordability

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Support healthy food as preventive healthcare by expanding Food is Medicine initiatives, strengthening connections between local farms, schools, hospitals, and community health centers, supporting regenerative agriculture, and reducing Vermonters’ exposure to harmful chemicals and contaminants wherever Vermont has the authority to act.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Together, we can build a healthcare system where every Vermonter has a trusted healthcare team close to home and never has to choose between getting the care they need and paying the bills.

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Source topic or question: Taxes, economy, workers, agriculture, and affordability

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Having built a career through hard work and the trades himself, John has long been a strong advocate for career and technical education, apprenticeships, and workforce development programs that prepare Vermonters for rewarding careers in construction, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and other essential industries.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Health care

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Grow a primary care workforce. Incentivizing physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to practice primary care, especially in rural areas, by expanding loan forgiveness and scholarship opportunities.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Advance meaningful healthcare reforms that treat healthcare as a human right by prioritizing community-based preventative primary and mental health care for every Vermonter and incentivizing wellness and prevention over profit from illness.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 15, 2026

Source topic or question: Health care

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Support publicly-funded universal primary care for all Vermonters – regardless of age, income, or zip code. This will reduce or eliminate insurance premiums while increasing Vermonters’ access to preventative care – the cheapest and most effective way to keep Vermonters healthy, and decrease costly visits to hospital emergency rooms. Read Molly’s full proposal for Universal Primary Care here.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Address inflated hospital administrative costsby aligning salaries for administration and management with regional peers, in turn finding savings in hospital budgets and decreasing insurance premiums without compromising patient care.

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Source topic or question: Taxes, economy, workers, agriculture, and affordability

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Support policies that ensure our Vermont rural communities don’t just survive, but thrive — with equitable access to quality schools, hospitals, primary care, affordable housing, broadband, and other essential services.

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Source topic or question: Health care

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Support universal primary care for every Vermonter

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