What's more, the state is literally crawling with earwigs and Massholes.
Think more along the line of "Alice's Restaurant" (New York aka New Jerkers) hippies and other '60's holdovers who took the yellow acid. Vermont should serve as a lesson to all small states about infiltration by progressives. Once the land of Larry, Daryl, and Daryl, it became the wonderful world of Bob Newhart, Ben and Jerry, and, of course, in Burlington, Big Blue. It is a state where there may still be more cows than people, many of whom are actually smarter. They cows do little other than hang around all day waiting to be fed and then milked, well now that I think about it so do most Vermonters.
Single payer in Vermont will be most instructive to the rest of the nation. The DUmp article and DUmmies over look a lot of very important questions about how this is to be financed. To pass this turkey they disconnected the financing from the bill.
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/05/23/vermont-single-payer-health-care-financing-slides-toward-chaos{snip}
In May 2011 the governor proudly signed Act 48, built on 13 principles that have achieved mythic status among advocates. Notable among them is (11): “The financing of health care in Vermont must be sufficient, fair, predictable, transparent, sustainable, and shared equitably.â€
The Shumlin team was supremely confident it knew just how to do this. The governor’s health care guru, Anya Rader Wallack, set forth the coming Vermont program in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. When it was pointed out that much of what Act 48 hoped to do required waivers from the federal government, our equally confident governor informed the media “we can outsmart the feds.â€
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DUmmies will never read the link above lest they fall to wailing an lamentation. It's jus not in their nature to face up to the facts.
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/03/26/vermont-continues-push-toward-single-payer-system-without-funding-clari{snip} Third Attempt at Single Payer
Single payer had been introduced in the legislature twice before. “In both cases, once the price tag was put on it†the plans failed, Wennberg said.
Wennberg says Shumlin wants to avoid that outcome, and that he plans to get single-payer locked into place before the price tag is known.
“Even though we think that $1.611 billion is hopelessly optimistic, in terms of the tax needed to support this, it is sufficiently large that we can just use that number and present that number to Vermonters and explain to them that that is nearly three times the total revenues that the residents of the State of Vermont pay in their personal income taxes each year,†Wennberg said. “It is enormous—beyond comprehension in a state of 630,000 people.â€
Single Payer Not Certain
Larson acknowledged there are several remaining steps before the single payer program can move forward.
“Act 48 has a number of different conditions that have to be met before implementation of Green Mountain Care,†said Larson. “One of them is the vestment of a financing plan. Another is receiving a waiver for the ACA and the exchange. There’s an economic analysis that has to be performed, and a budget authorized for Green Mountain Care
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I have a feeling Vermonters are going to wake up one morning with sticky sheets and little else.
Talk about a pipe dream. Will doctors flee the socialist utopia? You betcha!!
