Colorado residents will be voting on a single-payer health insurance system next November.
(More commentary on it here: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_29081521/guest-commentary:-coloradocare-is-health-care-for-everyone)
In general, I think single-payer has a lot of significant advantages over the bureaucracy and (mostly) for-profit-motive of the current mixture of private insurers. The devil is, of course, in the details, but it will be interesting to watch the debate, and how nasty ("Socialism!") it gets, how quickly.
Colorado to vote on single-payer state health-care system
Colorado group collects enough signatures to put single-payer state system on 2016 ballot
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Whaaaaaa? Whoah. That's amazing. 3/4 of my coworkers are going to completely melt down over this.
Great. Progress is slow and meaningful change takes planning and time.