Shumlin blames single-payer failure on timing, costs, Republicans, himself

Gov. Peter Shumlin. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerFormer Gov. Peter Shumlin said Tuesday that Congress should move forward with a Medicare-for-all health care plan at the national level but that states should not try to implement a similar plan on their own.
Shumlin, who served from 2011 to 2017, made the comments at a special event with Harvard’s School of Public Health. Shumlin ran for governor in 2010 promising single-payer health care and abandoned the plan in December 2014, a