Kevin Outterson sizes up Vermont's single-payer healthcare bill – which is on the cusp of becoming state law:
The first thing I posted on was the incredible power of Vermont’s version of the Independent Payment Advisory Board to control costs. If they do this and they’re successful, there are a number of other states that will want to try it. It’s a 20-year time horizon, but if you think national single-payer is a political nonstarter, this is where the action is. But that’s the question: whether they can control costs. That’ll be everything.
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