How to Fix our Healthcare System: Medicare for All? A Public Option? Other Ideas?

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Isn’t Vermont trying to implement something along those lines?

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Isn’t Vermont trying to implement something along those lines?

I don't know what is happening in Vermont now. During Obama's presidency, Vermont did create a single payer plan. My understanding is that ACA bureaucrats ok'd the plan but only if all of the un-ACA was included at its core. That probably involved keeping lawyers, bureaucrats and insurance companies more involved. That didn't save any money so Vermont's Governor gave up on the idea. I don't know why the federal government just didn't step aside and let Vermont do what it wanted. The Clinton administration and Donna Shalala had allowed Wisconsin to try out a new welfare program to see how it worked out. It seems like the Obama administration could have done the same with Vermont's single payer program.