Posted on 01/22/2011 4:45:11 AM PST by markomalley
Newly-elected Vermont Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin wants to put a state-based single payer system in place by 2014. In an interview with Democracy Now! Shumlin said that the system may, if enacted, use one insurance company to insure all citizens.
Job-killing legislation? Shumlin said that to the contrary, his state would be a magnet for outside companies if employers would not need to provide insurance to their workers.
Shumlin said that the state would need waivers to re-allocate federal dollars to make the program happen.
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I hope Shumlin enjoys his single term.
Parasites sucking the host body to death
If the people of VT are smart, they’ll turn the lib’s guns back on them - let it go into effect, then file a class-action lawsuit against the single company he’s using to ensure all the state’s citizens for being a monopoly. Let the weeping and gnashing of teeth ensue.
**Insure.
A look at our future America.
Too bad for all those new businesses that all the best doctors will leave.
Show me one single payer system that has actually worked.
(Oh, yeah, the right person hasn’t been in charge. Yet.)
Won’t Obamacare have to be repealed for him to be able to implement such a system?
employers will not have to provide insurance, but they will be taxed up the wazoo.
If that is what the citizens of VT want so be it. I’m all for states rights.
A beautiful but, hippie state, elected a Dim Gov., whodathunkit!
Simple, you get who you elect.
Northeastern liberals .
The socialist force is strong in Vt but ben and jerry can’t carry the whole state on their backs. The roads are getting worse every year in Vt because they don’t have any money.
We will all be asked/forced to give Vermont a bailout.
Exactly. The Constituition reserves this right for the states.
The only companies that will move there are halal goat slaughtering houses to serve the increased Somali population that will move in to make Maine more of a hell hole.
As long at VT citizens want it, and we dont have to pay for it, then good luck. You will crash like a lead balloon, but that’s what the 10th amendment is all about.
New Yorkers have ruined this once great state. My in-laws are originally from Vt. I’m lucky enough to visit once a year. The whole family are gun owners, hunters, love big trucks,and most importantly are conservatives.
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