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Some Vermonters can ‘keep their plan’ through March because the state’s $170M exchange doesn’t work
Conservative Intel ^ | 11/4/13 | David Freddoso

Posted on 11/04/2013 8:50:02 AM PST by The Old Hoosier

Vermont’s health insurance exchange cost $170 million in federal grants to develop (or nearly $4,000 per uninsured Vermonter). It also doesn’t work. So Gov. Peter Shumlin, D, (unhappy-looking guy at right) is pulling the fire alarm...

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; demgovernor; exchanges; safetyvalve; shumlin; stategovernor; vermont

1 posted on 11/04/2013 8:50:02 AM PST by The Old Hoosier
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And Vermont is one of the states which thinks it can do Single Payer...


2 posted on 11/04/2013 8:51:22 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: The Old Hoosier
The Vermont website itself (developed by CGI, the people who brought you HealthCare.gov) cost only $83.9 million, after its budget doubled from original estimates.
I'm thinking there's a pattern here. Hmmmm ...
3 posted on 11/04/2013 9:07:13 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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4 posted on 11/04/2013 9:23:01 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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Yeah. Peter Shumlin is a corrupt jerk. He persuaded the dummies in the Vermont legislature to pass a single payer healthcare law without any effort to figure out how it would be paid for, when the Fed money ran out. Now he evidently can’t even get it started, let alone figure out how to pay for it down the line.


5 posted on 11/04/2013 9:36:34 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Another ignorant and clueless Obamarxist group heard from...

"But we meant well! *whine*
Heartless conservatives!"

6 posted on 11/04/2013 10:20:00 AM PST by publius911 (At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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