How WE can help Single Payer in Vermont:

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2. If it is only Vermont going single-payer, only Vermont should decide.

It will be citizens of Vermont shouldering the cost, not everyone who believes, like I do, that we need single-payer in this country. I was disappointed when Peter Shumlin threw in the towel, but I understood it. If we had gotten a public option in the healthcare bill it would have morphed into single-payer as people gravitated to a more affordable solution. We should focus on single-payer for everyone, not on just single-payer in a low population state that happens to be the bluest of the bunch. Sure, it could spread if they get it, or it might not. With so few people in the state it could turn out to be so expensive people leave Vermont in droves because they can't afford the state taxes and that would be a death blow to single-payer on a large scale.