It's only money. Does the public trust government to turn (often deductible) premiums into taxes and give them accessible healthcare?
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Apples & oranges. Big difference between a state plan & federal plan. VT has 626,630 people total (ranked 49th) No economy of scale.
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Or to put it another way, can Docs/Specialists operate without over the top insurance payments subsidizing Medicaid? (even Medicare)?
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WIll California be different given economies of scale? Or will it suffer same fate of limits of state efforts?
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2) the single payer plan he presented was a lead balloon, trotted out to fail at the starting gate.
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1) When Gov. Shumlin barely squeaked through his reelection bid he had clearly lost his nerve on this...
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Americans sent ppl to moon in 1960's using govt resources & primitive tech bc we had a goal. Goal now single-payer healthcare= very doable
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The first step in single payer is universal coverage for minors which is cheap, popular, doable. Prove that works, then expand coverage.
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We've already proved it worked with Medicare, not to mention taking more of the young out of insurance will be even worse.
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But covering minors will force you to understand what happens when a whole group of doctors (pediatricians) suddenly has only one customer.
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