Vermont, like all states, is facing a serious revenue crisis. Can we afford to provide healthcare to all at a time like this?
The lack of affordable universal healthcare presents us with not just a humanitarian crisis but also an economic crisis. The high cost of our current healthcare “system” is responsible for many of the economic problems that we now face, and the rapid rise of healthcare costs creates an economic situation that is unsustainable. The current healthcare “system” has no way of controlling these costs other than by denying the care that people need. There are ways of controlling healthcare costs without reducing the quality of care, but implementing effective cost controls requires a real healthcare system not merely a collection of insurance plans. Rather than seeing healthcare reform as an added burden on our economy, we should see it as a form of economic development. With healthcare as a human right, we could eliminate the single largest cause of personal bankruptcy. We could eliminate the single largest barrier dissuading would-be entrepreneurs from starting new businesses. We could red
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