Vermont Experimenting With Single Payer Healthcare System
Democrats frustrated with Obamacare get excited
While all eyes are on the ObamaCare rollout, an ambitious health care experiment is going forward in Vermont that would create a government-run alternative know as a "single-payer" system—and it's starting to attract more attention from liberals frustrated with the Affordable Care Act's implementation.
Democrats' faith in ObamaCare has been shaken by the technical failures of the federal and state insurance exchanges as well as, in some cases, premium increases. In Vermont, however, they see a potential first step toward the kind of national government-run health care system some have advocated for years. Filmmaker Michael Moore, in a column last week blasting ObamaCare, said Vermont's plan could "change everything."
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So, just like Romneycare, we can watch Vermont singlepayer screw up the healthcare industry for the state and then adopt it nationally anyway. Yay!