The Vermont "Single Payer Legislation" is a hoax.
It is not based on the Canadian model and the Canada Health Act.
Tommy Douglas did not view single-payer as the ultimate goal; in fact, Tommy Douglas was creating a public health care system in Saskatchewan--- socialized health care--- when it began to rapidly catch on and support for socialized health care spread like a prairie fire across Canada which struck fear into the profit-mongers, and a reform agreement was reached resulting in single-payer which is financed mainly through a payroll tax on employers and employees just like Social Security is paid for.
The Vermont "single-payer" will cost families hundreds of dollars a month--- probably well over $700.00 a month. I have called the office of the Vermont governor to ask how much this will cost the people. They refuse to say. I then called 10 members of the Vermont legislature at random--- no one would answer this question.
PNHP dishonestly promotes single-payer as the "ultimate solution" while backing this hoax in Vermont just like they backed the legislation by Minnesota State Senator John Marty which was a hoax--- not single -payer.
The "ultimate solution" is a national public health care system--- socialized health care.
What is real single-payer?
No-fees/no-premiums, comprehensive, all-inclusive, pre-natal through burial; publicly financed, publicly administered and privately delivered.
What is a national public health care system?
No-fees/no-premiums, comprehensive, all-inclusive, pre-natal through burial; publicly financed, publicly administered and PUBLIC DELIVERY.
Doctors should be placed on the public payroll just like public school teachers and health care should be modeled on the same system as public education.
PNHP is looking out for the doctors not for the well-being of the rest of us in promoting these phoney "single-payer" schemes like in Vermont.
No one in Vermont will provide any specifics about cost or what the role of insurance companies will be--- in fact, Vermont Blue Cross/Blue Shield welcomes the Vermont legislation and the only thing people have to look at is their monthly premium they are now paying to them for insurance and by 2017 they will be paying about 30% more under this fraudulent "Vermont Single-Payer" legislation which is titled:
"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Single-payer is not even in the legislation's title.
Again, this is nothing but modified Obamacare with a board stipulating that doctors will continue robbing people just like the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industries.
No Canadian would view the Vermont legislation as anything similar to Canadian single-payer; so why would we?
Don't fall for this hoax.
Don't believe me? Just sit by and think that you will be getting single-payer as a result of the Vermont hoax which does absolutely nothing for you and me but enshrines continued high fees for doctors.
I challenge anyone who disputes my assessment of this Vermont legislation to post here:
What a family of four will continue to pay out of their pocket for health care.
At best, single-payer should be supported as a step towards a national public health care system.
Public education works because it is public; privatize education and it ceases to work. Same thing with health care--- privatized health care does not work.
What do we want in health care?
Publicly Financed. Publicly Administered. Publicly Delivered.
When do we want it? NOW!
Fund health care not these dirty imperialist wars.
A National Public Health Care System has the added bonus in that it would create some 12-million to 15-million new jobs putting people to work providing the American people with FREE health care for a small fraction of the price Obama's dirty imperialist wars are costing us.
Instead of over 800 U.S. military bases dotting the globe on foreign soil--- put a health care center in ever neighborhood.
Of course, just like in Canada, clinging to this rotten and corrupt two-party trap isn't going to get us anywhere near real single-payer or a national public health care system--- it was Tommy Douglas and his socialist New Democratic Party (then called the CCF) that won single-payer and on his deathbed Tommy Douglas told Canadians that the struggle for health care reform would not be over until socialized health care was finally realized.
The peddlers of this Vermont hoax are also trying to pervert where Tommy Douglas stood on health care reform and how this reform in Canada came about.
Again, I say, bring forward the specifics of the Vermont legislation and let's see how much it will cost and who will pay and how it will be paid for. Very simple. Just give us these facts of what will be and not what some Democratic Party shill would "like to see happen."
Don't fall for this hoax; it is just like Obama--- a Democratic Party fraud.
It isn't even an itty-bitty, teeny-weeny baby step towards real health care reform--- it is another big step backwards just like Obamacare--- the "Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry Bailout and Profit Maximization Act of 2010."
Our goal should be to get us closer to a national public health care system--- anything that doesn't put us on this path should be rejected.