Leslie's Health Care is a Human Right Fundraiser

Join me in supporting the Vermont Workers’ Center to fight for our human right to healthcare! 

Check out my Commentary published in the online news source VT Digger!

Here are some highlights that make clear why I'm asking for your donation:

As a longtime member of the Vermont Workers’ Center, I’ve been helping to lead the “health care is a human right” campaign since 2008. In 2011, the Vermont Workers’ Center and our partners were instrumental in gaining passage of Vermont’s landmark universal health care law that remains in state statute, with its promise unfilled.

I joined the Vermont Workers’ Center’s “health care is a human right” campaign because I know what it’s like to struggle to afford care, in the past, and because I feel a moral imperative to work to extend what state employees have — or better — to everyone in the state.

In the 10 years since the governor and legislature abandoned universal health care, Vermont’s health care crisis has grown exponentially worse.  Everyone, from policy experts and consultants, to legislators, health care providers, and the average person seeking care, agrees the system is failing us. 

So many of us are affected by this health care crisis or are outraged by the moral failure of a system that rations health care according to ability to pay. Our collapsing health care system necessitates an all-hands-on-deck moment — we need a sustained effort of people impacted by this crisis to compel our elected government to respond to the will of the people.

And we need your donation to keep our working moving forward!

Thanks!