Alan Gittelsohn

Single Payer: A Tax, Not Insurance

lborkowski | December 29, 2014

by Anthony Robbins, MD, MPH When my colleagues here at The Pump Handle asked me if I would like to comment on the recent demise of "Single Payer" health insurance in Vermont, I hesitated because my Vermont hands-on experience is so dated. I moved on from being Vermont State Health Commissioner almost 40 years ago. But on second thought, I may have learned some things during my time in Vermont (and from 1970 to 1972 in Quebec) that can contribute to understanding health insurance in Vermont and in the US more generally. How did I happen to move to Montreal? Canada had just authorized…