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Jill Krowinski: “The cost of health care and access to health care is a huge…”

Featuring: Jill Krowinski, Democratic | Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives

Melinda Moulton interviews Jill Krowinski on Channel 17

Published June 20, 2019 | Video Starts at 25:42

Because we have a very good legislature that cares deeply about this. So what are some of the other issues? So paid leave. So health care. Health care. Okay. The cost of health care and access to health care is a huge problem. There's no question about it. In fact, the fact where we are with health care is extremely frustrating because we don't have a partner in Washington. (25:42–25:48)

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Asserts that health care cost and access are significant issues.

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“Gay Symington...became speaker of the House, the first Democratic woman to serve as speaker, the second in history.”
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“We worked on creating a buffer zone in Burlington...and we were able to pass it.”
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“The Supreme Court ruled against buffer zones.”
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“We went back and passed something else that would still protect patients walking into the health center and also met free speech guidelines.”
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“We created Emerge, and then I've been involved with the organization ever since.”
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“In February, I became the new executive director [of Emerge Vermont].”
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“So it's like Planned Parenthood. There's a national organization and there are state affiliates. So we are the Vermont affiliate.”
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“I think there's around 20 [Emerge affiliates] and growing across the country.”
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“Emerge is an organization that provides training for women who want to run for office or they want to work on campaigns.”
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“Our signature training program that runs the course over six months and is 70 hours long.”
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“I'm really proud under my leadership to have help support and recruit more young families to have run and win their campaigns last November…”
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“So in the country, I think we are ranked number four with about 39% of the legislature being women.”
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“In the House, our Democratic caucus is divided. I think it's 50. 50. I think we have one more woman and one more.”
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“We've never sent a woman to Congress. We've only had one woman serve as governor in our entire history. Out of our six statewide office…”
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“We passed [the paid family and medical leave bill] last year. [Governor Phil Scott] vetoed it.”
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“In January we'll be taking, it's going to come up again and we're going to send him another version of the bill.”
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“The current version of the bill has an all in approach when it comes to paid family leave.”
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“The Trump administration is rolling back and trying to strip back every possible part of the Affordable Care Act.”
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“We are wrestling with that, with the federal government, and that's going to continue to be a fight.”
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“We've made great progress on supporting and expanding access to opioid treatment and mental health.”
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“There's going to be a package of legislation that's going to be introduced that I think builds really well on the work that we've been doing…”
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“One example is the TCI Transportation Climate Initiative. The governor has showed some interest in that.”
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“Our housing stock is very old and it's expensive.”
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