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SidDithers

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36. Nailed it...

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 09:07 PM

Sep 2013

IMO, ACA is the first step in a long road to single payer.

Once one state, Vermont seems the closest, enacts their own state-wide single payer plan, other states will watch closely to see how well it is received, and how successful it is. Soon, another state or 2 will enact their own state-wide single payer plans. Then a few more, and eventually, citizens in every state will be clamoring for their state governments to implement a single-payer plan.

The people who thought a national single-payer plan could have been imposed, top down, from the federal government are deluded. The only way that single-payer will come about in the US is from the bottom-up, state by state.

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