VT: Why Vermont pulled the plug on single-payer healthcare

Modern Healthcare (complimentary online subscription): Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin stunned the healthcare policy world last week when he announced the state was scrapping plans to create a single-payer system. The state said the economics didn't work, but not everyone is convinced.“This is all politics,” said Gerald Friedman, a healthcare economist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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