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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill on Thursday authorizing the state to adopt single payer health care – a move some liberals are cheering, saying the state could be a model for single payer on a much larger scale. But not so fast.
Here’s why liberals shouldn’t celebrate just yet and why Vermont’s single payer model, even if it goes into practice, could not be easily converted into a national model or trigger a wave of state action elsewhere.
In the light of day, a few things about yesterday’s health care court decision are coming into focus. The White House clearly expected federal Judge Henry Hudson to rule the individual mandate unconstitutional. The judge telegraphed his intentions in earlier comments and the Administration was ready with talking points about how Hudson’s ruling was only [...]
When Republican Sen. Tom Coburn forced the the reading of a 767-page single-payer amendment from Bernie Sanders – a task estimated to take 8-12 hours – it looked like most of us could pack it in for the day. But after nearly three hours of reading, Sanders found a way to stop the madness. He [...]
Heeeeeeeere we go. Right now in the Senate chamber, GOP delay tactics on the Democratic health care reform bill are in full swing. The Senate clerk is reading out aloud the text of an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders that would insert a single-payer system into the health care bill. The process of verbally entering [...]
