Calling it the biggest disappointment of his career, Democrat Gov. Peter Shumlin said recently that he was abandoning plans to make Vermont the first state in the country with a universal, publicly-funded health care system.



 “Going forward with a project four years in the making would require tax increases too big for the state to absorb,” Shumlin said.


Say it ain’t so! The measure had been the centerpiece of Shumlin’s agenda, and Vermont was to be the poster child of single-payer healthcare for the entire country.

I say, “IT STILL IS!”


“I am not going (to) undermine the hope of achieving critically important health care reforms for this state by pushing prematurely for single payer when it is not the right time for Vermont,” Shumlin said to reporters and two boards advising him on health care changes.




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