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bluestate10

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9. The one state that may get to Single Payer first, coincidentally.
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 09:56 PM
Mar 2012

Is Massachusetts, if democrats continue to lead. Single Payer dreamers will surely demand that Vermont will be the first state. I doubt Vermont will get to Single Payer before the Bay State. Vermont's path is cloudy for two reasons, first Vermont need federal approval, second, Vermont is the only blue tax beggar state in existence. The Bay State is a blue donor state by a large margin, has a health care plan that Romney left a shell but the democrat Governor has reformed to the condition where health care costs are growing slower than anywhere else in the country and where citizens are among the healthiest in the country. The Bay State has the framework for moving to Single Payer over time, Vermont does not have the framework in place and working.

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