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Would You Like A Side Of Healthcare With That?

1/7/2014

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In tonight's news, Vermont embarks on the great single-payer health insurance experiment.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/07/vermont-backs-controversial-single-payer-system-for-health-care-overhaul-but/

"A single-payer plan would largely sideline the insurance industry..."  Exactamundo.  Single-payer was on the table during the first 6 months or so of the ONE AND A HALF YEAR Congressional logjam that gave us what people insist on calling Obamacare, but I feel is more appropriately termed CongressCare.  But single-payer was so excoriated and portrayed as a product of the mind of Satan that it was sidelined early on, leaving Congress to assemble the Frankenstein plan they did.  Wonder who influenced that?  Oh...perhaps...health insurance companies?  Well, anyway, when I talk to my dad, who due to his age has Medicare, even he, who has fondness for neither Obama nor government generally, admits "It works pretty good."  Like decriminalizing drugs, I feel that we'll inevitably do this.  Economics will force it.  The question is just whether we go painfully, kicking and screaming and gnashing our teeth, or with an open mind, giving it a try, perfecting it, and, sure, if it doesn't work, then trying something else.  Most of the problems I solve are not solved with the first tool or method I try.  But I am not easily dissuaded and I keep my mind open to all possible solutions.

P.S.  I've heard theories that the liberals gave up on single-payer and went along with passing FrankenbamaCare because they new it would be such a train wreck, and that it would make health insurance companies look so much more evil, that single-payer would look like the Promised Land in comparison.   Based on the Facebook chatter I see, that plan, if true, seems to be working perfectly.
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