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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVermont's single payer insurance system, an option under the ACA, is now at risk.
The Democratic governor barely squeaked out a victory in the re-election, and this jeopardizes his mission to bring single-payer to Vermont.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20141106/NEWS03/711069868
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Because no candidate received 50 percent of the vote, the Vermont Constitution requires the newly elected Legislature, which is heavily controlled by Democrats, to select a governor.
What looks to be an extremely narrow margin of victory for Shumlin casts into doubt the governors dream of implementing a single-payer health care system in Vermont and could damage any future political ambitions he holds. But Shumlin dismissed any notion that his political future was over, or that he would be viewed as a lame duck by lawmakers.
A week in politics is a long time, he said. Two weeks is even longer.
At his Wednesday news conference, Shumlin seemed to retreat from his steadfast commitment to a single-payer health care proposal, now promising to continue reform efforts for universal, affordable and quality health care but not mentioning single payer.
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handmade34
(22,756 posts)scarystuffyo
(733 posts)property tax hikes that are going to be implemented in 2015 due to the rising cost in the public school budgets .
There really comes a time when you can tax people just too damn much.....
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)We are approaching a time when home ownership will no longer be the "magic bullet". Property taxes have been "assigned" the task of education funding, which it should never have been.
Education & health care should be funded from general revenue, and when that fund is under pressure, income taxes need to be raised, or a special levy put in place for a specified time.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)...the legislature has voted the candidate with the most votes into office, so I do not see it that Shumlin is out. If history is a judge, he will still be governor.
So as far as the single payer in Vermont, it's still on.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)single payer, given his eroding support -- along with the fact that they still haven't figured out how to pay for it.