Vermont Governor Moves to Create Single-Payer Healthcare System

[Ben]

YouTube - Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin Moves to Create Single-Payer Healthcare 1 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweBMoLuf3o)

YouTube - Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin Moves to Create Single-Payer Healthcare 2 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5OoUp-omfw)

[south ov da border]

and people see this as a good thing right?

[NYBURBS]

and people see this as a good thing right?

Better that it happens on a State level than a federal one. It's the idea that ppl on a local level can decide what's right for them better than a group of 535 in Washington DC can.

[trish]

Better to have a wide base of payers, than a small one...the whole idea of insurance is to share risk. The bigger the subscriber base, the less per risk per subscriber. It's great that Vermont has seen the light. It would be better if the nation as a whole adopted single payer protection.

[NYBURBS]

Better to have a wide base of payers, than a small one...the whole idea of insurance is to share risk. The bigger the subscriber base, the less per risk per subscriber. It's great that Vermont has seen the light. It would be better if the nation as a whole adopted single payer protection.

I'd think that it all comes down to ratio of healthy ppl to chronically ill people in any given population. I'd suspect that Vermont probably has a pretty healthy population given the outdoor recreation available, but either way I'm a bigger fan of letting States decide what works for them. Just like legalizing drugs should be a local matter, not a federal one.