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Vermont Taking the Lead!
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Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 26, 2013 at 4:02 pm
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/vermont-m...ple-video/

Quote:The ACA provided states with federal funds to institute a Medicaid expansion. The states chose to expand the program also were able to set up their own state exchanges, which were relatively free from the problems the federal site had. Vermont decided to take it a step further by setting up their very own single payer system.

The slogan of the program: Everybody in, nobody out.

The program will be fully operational by 2017, and will be funded through Medicare, Medicaid, federal money for the ACA given to Vermont, and a slight increase in taxes. In exchange, there will be no more premiums, deductibles, copay’s, hospital bills or anything else aimed at making insurance companies a profit. Further, all hospitals and healthcare providers will now be nonprofit.

The FOX News Fucks will shriek themselves hoarse shouting SOCIALISM!!!!!
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RE: Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 26, 2013 at 4:30 pm
If it pans out well, others will follow.
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RE: Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 26, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Nice! Maybe pigs will fly and other states will follow suit. Well, the ones left in the Union anyway.
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RE: Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 26, 2013 at 5:21 pm
(November 26, 2013 at 4:30 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: If it pans out well, others will follow.
I bloody well hope so. But, in this country? Where socialism is a dirty word?
Vermont, after all, is Bernie country. Love that guy. Cool Shades
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RE: Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 26, 2013 at 6:56 pm
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RE: Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 27, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Bernie Sanders is my favorite American politician. He is a socialist who supports gun rights, just like me!
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RE: Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 27, 2013 at 3:53 pm
(November 26, 2013 at 5:21 pm)Raven Wrote: I bloody well hope so. But, in this country? Where socialism is a dirty word?

Lots of things are dirty words until they work and get people re-elected. If this works as hoped, other states will be scrambling to follow suit, and the holdouts will be too sick to protest. :p
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RE: Vermont Taking the Lead!
November 27, 2013 at 3:58 pm
We need Bernie in the White House so all the republibertarianeo-conazi's heads explode.
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