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What A Single-payer Health Care Plan in California Would Mean to the Rest of Us

By Todd Halterman
What A Single-payer Health Care Plan in California Would Mean to the Rest of Us

“We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.” And with that, Paul Ryan the Republican speaker of the House threw in the towel on his sweeping plan to replace the ACA (Obamacare). But political leaders in California plan to take the refinement of the state’s healthcare system into uncharted territory. During February of this year, state senators Ricardo Lara and his colleague Toni Atkins wrote proposed legislation to replace private health insurance…

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Vermont Embraces Single Payer Despite Obamacare Uncertainty

By Loren Heal, The Heartland Institute
Vermont Embraces Single Payer Despite Obamacare Uncertainty

Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law this summer, Vermont will move forward in creating the first single-payer health insurance system in the United States. Under the system signed into law by Democrat Gov. Peter Shumlin in May 2011, a universal, taxpayer-financed government-managed system, Green Mountain Care, will replace private health insurance. All decisions about health care in the state will be made by a five-member,…

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