Peter Shumlin Quotes

Peter Shumlin — American Politician born on March 24, 1956,

Peter Elliott Shumlin is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who serves as the 81st and current Governor of Vermont and has served as chair of the Democratic Governors Association since December 2012. First elected Governor in 2010, he was re-elected by a large margin in 2012. In 2014 he received a narrow plurality in his race for re-election, but did not attain the 50 percent threshold required by the Vermont Constitution, requiring the Vermont General Assembly to select the winner in January 2015. He was subsequently re-elected to a third term by the legislature by a vote of 110-69. On June 8, 2015, Shumlin announced that he will not seek re-election in 2016... (wikipedia)

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

Peter Shumlin Quotes

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