{"id":537,"date":"2011-10-04T05:17:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=537"},"modified":"2011-10-04T05:17:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:17:04","slug":"montana-gov-brian-schweitzer-will-seek-health-care-law-waiver-to-establish-single-payer-in-his-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/montana-gov-brian-schweitzer-will-seek-health-care-law-waiver-to-establish-single-payer-in-his-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Will Seek Health Care Law Waiver To Establish Single Payer In His State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2011\/09\/29\/332031\/montana-governor-waiver-for-single-payer\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/schweitzer-300x232.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) made history earlier this year when he signed into law legislation that would make his state the first state to lay the groundwork for a single payer health care system. In order to enact this system, the state needs a waiver from the federal health care law, which it will be able to obtain in 2017. Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) has introduced legislation to move the waiver date up to 2014, an idea President Obama has endorsed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, another governor is looking to take advantage of flexibility in Obama\u2019s health care law in order to establish a single payer system. Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) announced yesterday that he will be seeking a waiver to set up his own universal health care system in his state modeled after the single payer Canadian health care system that began in the province of Saskatchewan:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2011\/09\/29\/332031\/montana-governor-waiver-for-single-payer\/\">Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Will Seek Health Care Law Waiver To Establish Single Payer In His State | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) made history earlier this year when he signed into law legislation that would make his state the first state to lay the groundwork for a single payer health care system. In order to enact this system, the state needs a waiver from the federal health care law, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,7],"tags":[322,57,123,321,320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}