VT House Speaker Shap Smith BLASTS critics of single payer

[cali]

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House Speaker Shap Smith, D-Morrisville, praised the House and Senate health care committee chairs before he launched into a speech excoriating critics of single payer.

“It’s amazing that we’re here and that we could be debating the fact that there could be something wrong (with) passing a law that creates coverage for all Vermonters,” Smith said. “It should be at the very core of what we believe in as citizens. It should be not debatable. It should be a fundamental principle for not only all Vermonters, but for all Americans. All of the other industrialized countries get it and thank God we here in Vermont get it, too.”

Smith chastised “those who say this may bring uncertainty.” He talked about rising health care expenditures and the cost of medical insurance premiums as more troubling uncertainties than the unknowns associated with creating a single-payer system.
“What is it like to face the uncertainty of not having health care coverage at all or having health care coverage that doesn’t really provide you with health care in the first place?” Smith said. “That’s uncertainty.”

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http://vtdigger.org/2011/05/27/shumlin-signs-nations-first-single-payer-bill-into-law/

and if you want to understand what VT is doing and how, read the full, long article at digger.

[Cid_B]

1. "It should be not debatable"

Fuck that...

[cali]

2. really? you think it should be debated whether all people deserve access to health care?

[rurallib]

3. affordable access to health care should be debatable?

I would love to hear your reasoning.

[cali]

4. sad to see a DUer expressing that