LA Times: Even if you have health insurance, you may want to pay cash

[glowing]

12. It was abandoned primarily because the gov is an asshole....

But beyond that, they are a state that has 650,000 people. When half the facilities that patients will use for major medical care are going to happen out of state, it would make VT incredibly liable for a lot of costs. The state is just too small to handle single-payer on its own. NOW, what they should have done to stream-line "single-payer" would be to essentially use an insurance company like they were a large employer, and work out a model of payments per person, then figure out the tax base from that number. They are just too small to handle the "switch", but abandoning it completely is an asshat move in my book... My Mom likes that idea, and has been making it a conversation to see how other people feel about that type of delivery system. Who knows, it might actually happen if they work on it, maybe by 2018?