Sunday, January 23, 2011
Vermont tries to get it right
Vermont's new governor is pushing for a single-payer health plan within the state. This doesn't seem to have entered the national discussion, but it's definitely worth watching.
You can't honestly argue the basic point now. Countries with single-payer plans have better health, better competitiveness, better business, and more opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Obama's plan is a huge step backwards from single-payer; it maintains all the current redundant and conflicting segments of American health care, and adds yet another redundant and conflicting segment with vastly more rules than the other redundant and conflicting segments, and no co-ordination between any of the segments. The only advantage of Obama's plan is that it guarantees even more profit to insurance companies, at tremendously increased cost to business and workers.
The Vermont plan, if the Feds will allow it to be set up properly, should blaze the trail for the rest of the country. Above all, it must find a way to fold both Medicare and Medicaid into the plan, so there are NO redundant/conflicting rules and NO redundant/conflicting bureaucracies. Single means single, dammit. ¶ 5:49 AM
You can't honestly argue the basic point now. Countries with single-payer plans have better health, better competitiveness, better business, and more opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Obama's plan is a huge step backwards from single-payer; it maintains all the current redundant and conflicting segments of American health care, and adds yet another redundant and conflicting segment with vastly more rules than the other redundant and conflicting segments, and no co-ordination between any of the segments. The only advantage of Obama's plan is that it guarantees even more profit to insurance companies, at tremendously increased cost to business and workers.
The Vermont plan, if the Feds will allow it to be set up properly, should blaze the trail for the rest of the country. Above all, it must find a way to fold both Medicare and Medicaid into the plan, so there are NO redundant/conflicting rules and NO redundant/conflicting bureaucracies. Single means single, dammit. ¶ 5:49 AM
