Peter Shumlin has said that he will help create a single-payer system for Vermont. This is something the U.S desperately needs. It would not have been possible if he lost the election.
Read this article about this doctor's hopes for single-payer having a chance after so long.
http://www.shumlinforgovernor.com/...
Well Shumlin is making it possible. He said that getting federal waivers from Obama will be easy. He has talked to him and there are lots of good signs. He will talk to him again on December 2nd. He is really committed. Add to Wyden/Brown's proposal for states to experiment to meet the minimum standards of the federal law or better, the United States of America can eventually have single-payer because of Vermont and other states joining.
Implementing Single-Payer so foes do not get a chance to frame it badly will be the toughest part. It has always been a challenge. However, Canada's single payer health care system started with one province. That province proved it works. It spread to the nation. Vermont, a huge bastion of progressivism and sanity, can do it too.
Oregon is trying to get single payer. I have faith that with Democrats fighting with full force in the General Assembly, Kitzhaber, unions, and grassroots progressives, Oregon can pave the way as well. Oregon elected Wyden who came up with this wonderful idea and opening for Single-Payer.
California has huge momentum for single-payer since both houses of the legislature passed it. The only obstacle was Arnold. Brown is there. There is a chance there.
Hawaii has a chance because the governor-elect was a sponsor of a single-payer bill.
Massachusetts voters affirmed their support of single payer in the shellacking 2010 election.
IT GETS BETTER PROGRESSIVES!!!! FOCUS YOUR ENERGY POSITIVELY!!!!
UPDATE: Considering that Ron Wyden, Scott Brown, and the White House support the early waiver bill, it is all but certain it will pass easily in the lame duck session. THIS IS A HUGE GREEN LIGHT!