Bernie Sanders’s Single-Payer Health Care Plan Failed in Vermont

Daily Beast ^ | 01/25/2016 | PATRICIA MURPHY

[Kid Shelleen]

When Sen. Bernie Sanders regales his campaign crowds with a portrait of The Way Things Are Going to Be, his "Medicare for All" program takes center stage. In a Sanders administration, the candidate promises, every man, woman, and child in America will share in a government-run, government funded health-care system. But the single payer system that Sanders is evangelizing isnt just a figment of progressive utopian fantasies. Single payer health care has already been tried and failed in Sanders's home state of Vermont, --SNIP-- the cost for the program, an estimated $4.3 billion a year, almost the size of the state's entire $4.9 billion budget. To make up for the $2 billion shortfall, taxes would have to go up, a lot

[Don Corleone]

I pretty much fails wherever its tried.

[stocksthatgoup]

So did Mitt Romney’s

[RetiredTexasVet]

Well it is someone else’s money ... so it’s OK!

[Travis McGee]

[Repeal 16-17]

Liberals/Progressives/Socialists/Communists always have to use deceptive euphemisms. The single payer in Single Payer Healthcare is the government, which gets its money from the taxpayers. So it really is taxpayer-funded healthcare or government-run healthcare. Using the euphemism “single payer” is so the dumbasses think a single party (the government) pay for all healthcare while everyone else gets it for free. If Single Payer Healthcare is so wonderful, then its supporters should give it an honest name.

[Travis McGee]

That’s just because the U.S. never gave it a chance to succeed.

See above, fine print.

[gorush]

“A liberal’s paradise would be a place where everybody has
guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare,
free education, free food, free housing,
free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns.”

And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist: It’s called Prison.”

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Phoenix

[BitWielder1]

So what if it failed in a state, scale it up to the whole country and it will work just fine, you'll see. /sarc

[publius911]

But closer to home, activists say Vermont's failure even to implement its plan for universal health care was a failing of political will, not the policy itself. In better hands, they say, the policy can still work.

The eternal explanation from the ZERO IQ crowd...

For the repeated utter failure of...
Socialism/Communism.

For over a hundred years now.
And it still doesn't work!!

As an important related issue...

WHY ISN'T THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF MEDICARE/MEDICAID CODES AND PRICES FOR MEDICAL SERVICES NOT AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC?

Because we are too stupid to understand it?

We all know that it is the product of Jonathan Gruber's fertile creative imagination.

...and we all know what he he thinks of the American citizenry and even our legislative division of Government.

[publius911]

I am stealing that!

And I'm going to use it almost daily for the next 9 months...

[DoughtyOne]