An historic event occurred on May 26th 2011.
The New York Times noted it with a single paragraph.
On that date, Vermont Governor, Peter Shumlin, “launch(ed) the first single payer health care system in the United States” by signing into law H-202 passed by the Vermont legislature just days earlier.
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ACA paves the way
The Vermont law could only be possible in the wake of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed by President Obama 14 months earlier.
That point may be missed by those who criticize the ACA as meaningless and the Vermont bill for falling short of the single payer ideal. Yet the ACA paved the way for the Vermont initiative in several ways. Continue reading ‘Vermont Enacts Single Payer Health Care Reform’
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