Governor Shumlin Signs Healthcare Reform Bill (track to Single Payer in VT)

garybeck

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Thu May-26-11 01:39 PM
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Governor Shumlin Signs Healthcare Reform Bill (track to Single Payer in VT)

Gov. Peter Shumlin stood on the steps outside the Statehouse Thursday and signed a law that puts Vermont on the road toward a universal health care system.

�We gather here today to sign into law the first single-payer system in America,� Shumlin said.

The new law doesn�t make the jump to a government-financed system soon � it could be five years before such a change could take place. Instead it sets in motion dozens of studies intended to inform decision-makers that include the Legislature and a new regulatory board that will be formed later this year.

more:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/

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WI_DEM

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Thu May-26-11 01:47 PM
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1. Some times I wish we were The United States of Vermont

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garybeck

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Thu May-26-11 01:54 PM
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2. it's nice here, but not as perfect as it seems from afar

we have a of neocons, chamberers, rednecks, conservatives.... we just have a slight margin over them. just enough, but it's not a comfortable margin by any means.

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