{"id":2230,"date":"2017-05-25T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2017-05-25T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:10:10","slug":"single-payer-democrats-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/25\/single-payer-democrats-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"Single payer, the Democrats holy grail."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/singlepayer_ready_for_strike_three_and_youre_out.html\">American thinker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Vermont was the first to try a single-payer plan. The ideal state for single payer. Home to Ben and Jerry\u2019s. Democrats as far as the eye can see, including one of the major single-payer proponents, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. How did that turn out in the land of Chunky Monkey?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Not well. Legislation was signed into law. But then reality hit. The price tag was more than the entire state budget, funded by a tax hike above and beyond Bernie\u2019s wildest dreams. The governor wisely pulled the plug, rather than bankrupting his state, sending business east, west and south to more friendly states. Strike one&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If tax revenues are insufficient, just pay doctors less right? Until they leave the state. Can\u2019t you pay hospitals less? Sure, until they close their doors. Then come the wait-lists. Waiting for not enough doctors or hospital beds. Don\u2019t believe me? Just look across the pond at the British National Health Service to see exactly how this plays out under a government-run single-payer system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats only hope is that the <em><strong>&#8220;stupid party&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>comes to their rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Oh the humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the American thinker. Vermont was the first to try a single-payer plan. The ideal state for single payer. Home to Ben and Jerry\u2019s. Democrats as far as the eye can see, including one of the major single-payer proponents, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. How did that turn out in the land of Chunky Monkey? Not &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/25\/single-payer-democrats-holy-grail\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Single payer, the Democrats holy grail.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"","site-content-layout":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-single-payer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Single payer, the Democrats holy grail. - deepredpond<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/25\/single-payer-democrats-holy-grail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Single payer, the Democrats holy grail. - deepredpond\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the American thinker. 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