Here he is speaking to a 2004 rally for government run healthcare held by the Democrat Socialists of America, the same communist group that helped install Obama.
Posted on 12/17/2014 6:43:25 PM PST by tobyhill
Calling it the biggest disappointment of his career, Gov. Peter Shumlin said Wednesday he was abandoning plans to make Vermont the first state in the country with a universal, publicly funded health care system.
Going forward with a project four years in the making would require tax increases too big for the state to absorb, Shumlin said. The measure had been the centerpiece of the Democratic governor's agenda and was watched and rooted for by single-payer health care supporters around the country.
"I am not going (to) undermine the hope of achieving critically important health care reforms for this state by pushing prematurely for single payer when it is not the right time for Vermont," Shumlin said to reporters and two boards advising him on health care changes.
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In the words of another Freeper bwa ha ha ha!
Communism didn’t work again?!?!?!? Who could have seen that coming?
I just can’t believe they pulled the plug before implementation. Something that doesn’t work and is unaffordable never stopped the dems before....
from-Kenneth Artz (iamkenartz@hotmail.com)
During his 2014 campaign, ....Shumlin received 46.4 percent of the vote to Republican opponent Scott Milne’s 45.1 percent. .....
Under Vermont law, if no candidate for governor receives a majority in the election, the state legislature selects the winner.
“Shumlin is damaged,” said Rob Roper of the Ethan Allen Institute, a think tank in Vermont. “He’s upset everyone but the people in Montpelier who want single-payer. I wouldn’t be surprised if the legislature chooses someone else to be governor.”
The legislature will select the next governor in early January.
This is shocking.
Not that single payer can’t work.
That a Democrat just exhibited a lot of common sense and didn’t implement his legacy achievement when faced with the facts of it’s eventual failure and damage to citizens.
I salute him. (He’s way off over there to the Northeast somewhere, what the hell.)
Pardon me while I laugh my ass off:
HAHAHAHAHA.....HOHOHOHO..HEHEHEHEHE...
Oh God, I’m dying here.
I just glad he realized that it was a mistake before he tried to ram it down everyone’s throat.
Vermont needs too figure out a way to get New Hampshire to pay.....
Here he is speaking to a 2004 rally for government run healthcare held by the Democrat Socialists of America, the same communist group that helped install Obama.
In this case the tax burden on the working citizens of VT was going to be horrific....there’s less than seven hundred thousand people in the whole state. There’s more people in several blocks of NYC. It was never going to work.
A democrat just admitted his policy was wrong? The temperature in hell just started dropping.
I suspected they would chicken out and abandon it.
he left some wiggle room.
I wonder, when IS the right time for Vermont for “tax increases too big for the state to absorb” ?
He ran out of Taxpayers...
Imagine that ... I woulda never guessed ... /sarc
How much did the dim DIM waste on this socialist BS?
Think his paid consultant Gruber was counting on the Governor being as stupid as the voters?
Wait, you are saying Vermonters didn’t re-elect Shumlin in November? Vermonters are waking up...
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