Vermont has passed single payer health care

[RGacky3]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-media-consortium/weekly-pulse-single-payer_b_854372.html

Yeah, there we go, THIS is the next healthcare fight, state to state.

Vermont, probably Americas most progressive state, goes first.

VICTORY!!!

[Drosophila]

If I had the money I'd move there right away.

[RGacky3]

Use the money you'd save on your health insurance ... if you have it.

[Klaatu]

Didn't Massachusetts have single-payer health care, or was it different than Vermont's?

[RGacky3]

I believe massachusetts has a mandate with a public option for poor people.

[danyboy27]

lol be ready for the column of refugee heading to Verrmont.

Fictionnal interview:

Journalist: why did you move to Vermont sir?

American: Well, they got that verry cool single payer healthcare, and unlike canada there is no mayonnaise in their hamburger so i decided to move in.

[agnixie]

lol be ready for the column of refugee heading to Verrmont.

Fictionnal interview:

Journalist: why did you move to Vermont sir?

American: Well, they got that verry cool single payer healthcare, and unlike canada there is no mayonnaise in their hamburger so i decided to move in.

It's all a Vermonter ploy to increase its electoral college delegation/put more socialists in congress. *tinfoil*

[danyboy27]

all hail the socialist republic of vermont. stay tuned for their massive display of military might during the may day parade.

[Metacomet]

Didn't Massachusetts have single-payer health care, or was it different than Vermont's?


We have a mandate that everyone must buy insurance, with a state option for low income people (MassHealth). I think we have 98-99% coverage.

[danyboy27]

We have a mandate that everyone must buy insurance, with a state option for low income people (MassHealth). I think we have 98-99% coverage.

so this is how it work eh, you guy are FORCING people to buy healthcare?
what next concentration camps (sarcasm all the way :D)

[Dumb]

We have a mandate that everyone must buy insurance, with a state option for low income people (MassHealth). I think we have 98-99% coverage.

After passage of the reform, Massachusetts fluctuates between 96% and 97%.

MassHealth is sort of a public option, I guess, though the Massachusetts reform bill certainly didn't create it. It's Medicaid in Massachusetts - and Medicaid is problematic for various reasons, not least of them being the GOP's recent attempts to essentially end the program.

[Le Libérer]

Louisiana residents are so fucked. Jindal and his cronies are suing the feds for Obama care. Also theres actually a bill to make ALL abortions illegal by a New Orleans Reprentative. The shit floats to the top down here in the swamps.

[JerryBiscoTrey]

gonna be a Vermont resident in four months when i move up there for college! :D

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

If I had the money I'd move there right away


Have you ever been to Vermont?

[Red Commissar]

Didn't Massachusetts have single-payer health care, or was it different than Vermont's?

Massachusetts's current program is more similar to the healthcare changes Congress enacted.

[L.A.P.]

Well the only socialist in the American government does represent Vermont.

[Ele'ill]

What would the basic coverage offer?

[Drosophila]

Have you ever been to Vermont?

Yeah, why?

[Dumb]

Well, are you there now?

[La Comédie Noire]

Didn't Massachusetts have single-payer health care, or was it different than Vermont's?

Like everyone else said it's just a really shitty version of private health care. People thought they were gonna get what state workers had, but they got something much worse.

But the health care for state workers ain't what it used to be either. :(

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

Yeah, why?

Because Vermont blows.

Yeah, it has its co-op dairy farms and new england autumn and the lake, but really Vermont was among the more boring places I've ever been.

[Property Is Robbery]

"I'm a Vermonter and I do what I wanta"
http://soundcloud.com/rhymetonia-records/what-i-wanta

[danyboy27]

Quebec have a Public funded healthcare system, and if it wasnt from the STUPID decision of our provincial governement, it would be in a good shape.

In order to ''balence the budget'' one of those ''leftist nationalis seperatist'' guy decided it was the time to just force hundred of docs in retirement and force the rest to accept a paycut.

Hell, Ontario, our Next door neigbor have a pretty decent healthcare system, beccause even tho they have suffered massive privatisation in the 90s, they didnt fired ton of doctors to ''balence the budget''.

This is just fucking disgusting that something that used to work so well was ruined by some dumbfuck who wanted to balence the budget.

the same dumbfucks released a manifesto a fews year ago asking Quebecker to work more and save money.

yea, beccause we can see in the us how well it went.

[Lt. Ferret]

i dont want to be forced to buy healthcare, this is only a victory for insurance companies.

[Lt. Ferret]

though i dont have to worry about that for a couple of years.

[agnixie]

i dont want to be forced to buy healthcare, this is only a victory for insurance companies.

Single payer universal healthcare =/= buying insurance

[Dumb]

i dont want to be forced to buy healthcare, this is only a victory for insurance companies.

Single-payer health care means that the government buys health care - you don't.

[Lt. Ferret]

ah. i thought this was one of those things where they force you to go buy insurance from a company, like auto insurance. ne'rmind.

[eric922]

Vermont sounds better by the day. An openly Socialist senator and single-payer healthcare. My state sucks in comparison, though to be fair TN sucks period.

[RGacky3]

ah. i thought this was one of those things where they force you to go buy insurance from a company, like auto insurance. ne'rmind.

Your talking about a Mandate, almost all socialists are against that sort of healthcare system, single payer gets rid of the insurance company.

[Metacomet]

Vermont is a very nice place. Tough winters. But if I had an apartment (and didn't have to shovel a huge drive) I'd manage :D

[Jazzratt]

Because Vermont blows.

Yeah, it has its co-op dairy farms and new england autumn and the lake, but really Vermont was among the more boring places I've ever been. To be fair though there's lots of places I think are dull, total shitholes or unappealing but if given the choice between moving to, say, S****horpe or being denied access to medicine unless I paid through the fucking nose then I would be packing my bags with unseemly alacrity.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

There are lots of places without healthcare coverage, but much cheaper costs of living than Vermont.

Point taken though, and I'm not trying to knock on vermont's (relatively) preogressive policies at all.

[Klaatu]

Well the only socialist in the American government does represent Vermont.

Bernie Sanders Rocks!

Talk about BALLZ! :thumbup:

[L.A.P.]

Bernie Sanders Rocks!

Talk about BALLZ! :thumbup:


The most hardcore bad-ass Reformist!:thumbup1: