Advocates hope to increase Catamount enrollment

August 30, 2007

BRATTLEBORO -- If you don't have health insurance, expect a knock at your door soon.

The fear of some health care reform activists is that Vermont's new Catamount Health program will fail because people don't know about it or are intimidated by the enrollment process, so citizen advocates from the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security Education Fund will be fanning out across the state to explain the program and help get those eligible enrolled.

"What we are doing with Catamount is way ahead of the rest of the nation," said Peter Sterling, the coordinator for the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security, which is working with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group to get the word out.

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