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Of the plans that states have hatched for the Affordable
Care Act, none has been bolder than that of Vermont, which wants to implement a
single-payer health-care system, along the lines of what you might find in
Britain or Canada. One government-operated system will cover all 620,000 of
Vermont’s citizens. The hope is that such a system will allow Vermont to get
costs down closer to Canada’s, as well as improve health by coordinating care
and ensuring universal coverage.
Just two small issues need to be resolved before the state
gets to all systems go: First, it needs the federal government to grant waivers
allowing Vermont to divert Medicaid and other health-care funding into the
single-payer system. And second, Vermont needs
to find some way to pay for it:
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