Posted on 10/22/2013 5:16:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Vermont’s health-care exchange website may be even a bigger mess than the federal-run HealthCare.Gov. And health care in Vermont may be headed for a unique train wreck due to its efforts to become the first state in the country to implement a single payer plan.
One of the president’s key selling points of the ACA was the promise that if you liked your plan, you could keep it. We’re learning that’s often not the case as Obamacare is implemented across the country. And in Vermont, there has been no pretense of such assurance.
As of January 1, 2014, in Vermont, the ability for individuals or employers with 50 or fewer employees to purchase health insurance from private insurance companies ceases to exist. As for policies already covering those businesses and individuals? Those cease to exist, as well. In other words, in Vermont, a good percentage of its population will have no choice but to buy health insurance through the state exchange.
As this great health insurance experiment proceeds, Vermont bears watching. If this small, healthy state can’t make Obamacare work to a high degree of satisfaction, it doesn’t bode well for more difficult challenges.
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I never saw where Churchill or Thatcher objected to or tried to dismantle it?
Churchill was busy; he had a war to fight. But, basically, Churchill considered Socialism to be incompatible with human liberty. There is a quotation many use to suggest that he supported the National Healthcare Service, but it is taken from his tribute to the Royal College of Physicians on 2 March, 1944. Conditions in bombed-out Britain in 1944 were different (more critical) than conditions in the USA in 2009. Also, in 1944, the words “national health service” did not necessarily mean what the Labor government created after the war.
Thatcher’s least successful reforms were with the NHS, but that does not mean she didn’t try. She made efforts to introduce a marketplace within the system to deal with costs, particularly for prescriptions, to make hospitals self-managing trusts with their own budgets, to give tax credits to people who has private insurance, etc. People in Britain, despite the 3 to 4 year waits they often have for surgeries, are rather addicted to “free” Medical care and always express fears about it in their elections, including mid-term elections against Thatcher. On this battlefront, the headwinds facing her were pretty strong, and she had to be politically expedient, but I do not doubt her true intentions.
Which is why it has to be stopped NOW!!!!! Once it’s in place there is no turning back.
If you go back to the early 1970s....Nixon (before the troubles)...had the idea of some type of national healthcare policy for the lesser of the nation to sign onto. It would have been cheap....but also limit your options and rely upon high deductibles.
Carter also brought this up about half-way through his four years....only to find Kennedy all disturbed and upset about it not being his pet project. It never went anywhere.
Excellent point. The problem is that these days the states can only adopt ideas that are within strict federal guidelines. So much for the 10th amendment.
Don't blame me, I hate this place. Voting anything but Socialist here is pointless, and very frustrating on election day.
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