Vermont

Via truthout, Senator Bernie Sanders appears on msnbc (video below) to discuss Vermont's move for a state-wide single payer health care system under the Affordable Care Act.  Salvadore Aversta writes:

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.

*Photo credit/via The David Pakman Show, "Vermont's Single Payer Push."