how many US states have a single payer healthcare system?
how many US states have a single payer healthcare system?
like the suggested medicare for all, but only on a state level
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I was on Green Mountain Care https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform for a year or two when it was available in Vermont... it was absolutely genuine single payer insurance system that gave me access to no-copay services. Sadly the program was shuttered three years after it had been introduced but I remember it fondly. It was accessible, affordable, and extremely comforting to have access to.
So why was it stopped?
Insirance companies couldn't just print money anymore.
The official reason is that taxes would have been raised too much (from the linked Wikipedia article / accompanying source: https://www.salon.com/2014/12/18/vermont_abandons_plan_for_single_payer_health_care/)
So frustrating. I live in a country with something of a hybrid model. I pay very little at point of service and my taxes aren't super crazy or anything. Prices need to be clamped down upon.