On December 17, 2014, Governor Peter Shumlin announced that Vermont would abandon its plan for single-payer health care, citing "potential economic disruption.
[5] The three options were laid out as follows: The commission's proposal ultimately considered the third option to be "the most politically and practically viable single payer system for Vermont," noting that Vermont, "a small state with communitarian values," with its existing network of non-profit hospitals and a medical community that had previously shown support for state intervention, would be "uniquely poised to pass universal health reform.
"[5] Following the proposal, Democratic state representative Mark Larson introduced H 202 on February 8, 2011, titled Single-Payer and Unified Health System.
David Himmelstein, the founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, a single-payer advocacy group, was critical of the plan due to the ability of private insurers to operate in the state, arguing that the plan "give[s] up a significant part of the administrative savings by doing that," but agreeing that Green Mountain Care "lays the foundation" for single-payer.
[15] The Burlington Free Press ascribed the result, in part, to voters' dissatisfaction with the progress the state had made in instituting single-payer health care.
[16] One of the problems found since the abandonment of the Vermont Health Care initiatives is questionable billing from Jonathan Gruber, who according to CNBC, has come under more scrutiny because of the contract.