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To: Brumar89 who wrote (755627)12/2/2013 5:21:14 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1576923
 
It's another step on the long road to universal health care.

Sun Nov 24, 2013 at 03:36 PM PST

Obama just launched single-payer in Americaby Willinois Follow



Did you notice? Did you see what happened when everyone was complaining about a website? Single-payer got started in America.

Vermont is using authority granted under the Affordable Care Act to start a single-payer system. Most Americans still don't know what the phrase "single-payer" even means. It had little support in Congress in 2009 and Senate "Democrats" like Nelson and Lieberman even killed the public option. But, ACA had this sweet little provision that allowed states to set up a single-payer system and now people will see it in action. You know what that means.

As Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opines, "The quickest route toward a national health care program will be when individual states go forward and demonstrate that universal and non-profit health care works, and that it is the cost-effective and moral thing to do.”
Oh I know this is hard to swallow. Obama is third-way! He's dismantling the safetynet! A corporatist! He killed the public option!

Whatever else he is, Obama is a President who acts in a thoughtful, deliberate way that the chicken little headlines of the day often miss. As many predicted, ACA is already leading to the kind of transformative progressive change Obama promised. The progressive movement will be responsible for showing the nation how well single-payer works after the Vermont system goes into effect. When public and non-profit insurance becomes the national norm, we'll know where it began.
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Who knows? Maybe I'll be #2.

Again, here in California, we have certain advantages when it comes to the innovation waiver.



First of all, California has tried to pass single payer for almost 30 years. Four times, a single payer bill got to or through the legislature in Sacramento, and twice SB 810 was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But the worst case scenario happened last year when SB 810 failed by two votes in the state Senate when six Democrats voted against the bill or abstained. So SB 810 was stopped but the single payer movement has not and we are putting together a strategy that will urge Sacramento to apply for an “innovation waiver.” I will cover it in more detail in future diaries. I expect the launch of this strategy to be on Sept. 15. More on this below. But bottom line is, we have a plan that clearly covers (with minor modifications) the first three requirements for the “innovation waiver”.

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