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Costs derail Vermont’s dream of a single-payer health plan (Flash Back of Epic Fail)
Boston Globe ^
| 01/25/2015
| Jay Fitzgerald
Posted on 09/23/2015 4:04:28 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
For decades, liberal activists yearned for a European-style, single-payer health system that they argued would lead to more affordable, efficient, and comprehensive medical coverage for all citizens. When Vermont four years ago enacted a landmark bill to establish the nation’s first single-payer health care system, they saw their long-sought dream about to be fulfilled.
But reality hit last month. Governor Peter Shumlin released a financial report that showed the cost of the program would nearly double the size of the state’s budget in the first year alone and require large tax increases for residents and businesses. Shumlin, a Democrat and long-time single-payer advocate, said he would not seek funding for the law, effectively tabling the program called Green Mountain Care.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: greenmountaincare; healthcare; obamacare; singlepayer; socializedmedicine; vermont
To: Kid Shelleen
...never saw that one coming...
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:05:57 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: Kid Shelleen
Single payer is Trumpcare.
To: Kid Shelleen
Money Line:
In short, if a liberal state electing a Socialist (US Senator Bernie Sanders) to Congress can’t or won’t put a single-payer system into place, then who will
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:06:14 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
Socialism fails every time it is tried.
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:08:12 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: Kid Shelleen
do I really have to say it???
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:08:33 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Bingo!!!!!!! The most highly acclaimed seven exclamation mark prize is yours today. Congratulations.
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:10:30 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Fungi
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:18:20 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: fhayek
The liberals who advocated for it truly did not see it.
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:19:38 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Socialism fails every time it is tried."NO! NO! NOOOO! We just haven't found the right people to run things yet!!! You people keep getting in our way!!! It hasn't had a chance!!!! Socialism is a perfect system!!!! Aaaaaah!!!!"
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:28:52 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
To: Kid Shelleen
And why is the Federal Government any different from Vermont?
Because it can issue debt in US Dollars and the Federal Reserve can print all the money it needs to prop up the welfare state.
Our socialized, centrally planned currency is the foundation of progressive, leftist government.
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posted on
09/23/2015 4:54:24 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Kid Shelleen
I wonder what Bernie thinks about that?
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posted on
09/23/2015 5:32:14 PM PDT
by
mosaicwolf
(Strength and Honor)
To: COBOL2Java
LOL, that is the response a liberal/socialist would give. They truly believe that if THEY were in charge, the problems with socialism would disappear.
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posted on
09/23/2015 5:32:42 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
BTW - this was the system that paid Jon Gruber 400K as a consultant.
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posted on
09/23/2015 5:41:58 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
Socialists—on a flat learning curve since Marx. “We’ll get it right next time!”
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posted on
09/23/2015 6:43:51 PM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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