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you_give_me_coupon t1_jayz2qg wrote

Reply to comment by thisoneisnotasbad in Ethan Parke: Senate bill offers health insurance to legislators, but not to other Vermonters by futurerecordholder

I'm sure you're right. We should kill two birds with one stone and guarantee universal health care for all. We'd save money, help real people in a material way, and allow regular people to serve in the legislature.

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HappilyhiketheHump t1_jaz1u3p wrote

We wouldn’t save money. As a stand alone state with free healthcare we would be a magnet for healthcare tourism and we would be bankrupted.

Vt cannot go it alone on universal healthcare.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_jb04qef wrote

Perhaps people don’t remember when Schumlin tried and after a couple years finally had to admit universal healthcare was too expensive for a state with VT ‘s revenue to afford.

It’s a good goal and I am sure it will be relitigated ever 10 years or so. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it and until there is a significant change on cost or state revenue, it will still end with it being too expensive.

*dude replied then blocked me.

Anyway, his claim is false which is why he has not produced a report.

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you_give_me_coupon t1_jb1ptmc wrote

The report Shumlin waved around at the press conference showed that for the overwhelming majority of Vermonters, they would have come out ahead with single-payer, even in the worst-case projections. He lied about that, and compliant media just transcribed and repeated his quotes, instead of writing from the document he held in his hand.

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obiwanjabroni420 t1_jb2nxsv wrote

With the scarcity and cost of housing here I don’t think any healthcare “tourists” are going to find anywhere to claim residency.

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you_give_me_coupon t1_jb1oteg wrote

Fair enough, and very easy to fix: make health care free at the point of use for year-round VT residents.

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