Obamacare is radical? Vermont thinks even bigger, with single-payer plan.
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A single-payer plan (with a parallel private system) makes sense. Health care is like national defense. It is better NOT be handled by the market. Yep, this comes from me.
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Wow, I'm surprised you'd advocate government intervention in anything.
But I agree exactly: we should have a basic single-payer public OPTION which every citizen is eligible for. If you don't like it, you'd be free to pay for private insurance.
What we have now is the insurance oligopoly corrupting democracy to prevent the public option.
It's kind of like defense contractors deciding when we should go to war. Not a good idea.
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We need a single payer like every other ind. country.
Problem is the tort bar wont allow it.
Tx has kinda resolve the problem.
Although it (Tx) is full of illegals , Im probably moving there for that reason.
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IMO, in general, Vermont may have a problem if a lot of the uninsured, from Albany to Plattsburg to Syracuse in upstate NY decide to move to Vermont. I think single payer works for VT, mainly because the state's population is low, the winters are brutal & thus, it's only inviting to neighboring states of similar climate, and thus, will need to provide fewer services than high population density regions with a lot of demographic disparities.
I could be wrong here but I think that single payer works for VT but for VT alone. For the rest of the nation, however, it could result in a lot of rationing, given the way healthcare is setup today.
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Patrick says
I am full of surprises. ;-)
Besides, reliance on employer-provided health plans is anti-business. It makes it too costly to be start a new business.
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Well good fucking luck with that!
In fact I say GOOD, this will be exactly the proof we need to show the greed that will dominate a monopolistic single payer system. I expect it to go just like Florida's homeowner insurance single payer system.
The result???
The average policy has quadrupled since 2006, when Florida refused to allow existing insurers raise the average premium of $800 a year, "10%".
Now the average policy is $3400 $3500 Thanks Liberals and your half baked hair brained ideas, that lack fore thought or initiated by people with the sticktoitiveness to over see that things go as intended. Yes thank you for all of your dedicated blind work.