Walter Carpenter: Primary care bill is about lives

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Walter Carpenter, of Montpelier, who is a single-payer health care activist.
On April 25, the Vermont House Committee on Health Care voted out S.53 by a narrow vote of 6-5. According to VTDigger, it represented a vote to “support a version of S.53 that explicitly endorses publicly financed primary care, available to Vermonters “without cost-sharing.”
I was among the spectators that crowded into the room for this historic discussion and