After Congress passed the health insurance reform bill, it seemed that the idea of single-payer healthcare was all but dead for at least the next decade. But the great state of Vermont has come to a different conclusion.\u00a0Its state legislature recently passed a bill mandating the study of three approaches to universal healthcare\u2014single payer, insurance-based healthcare with a public option, and the system based on the health insurance reform bill passed by Congress. The legislature plans to choose the best plan in 2011 and begin implementation in 2012.<\/p>\n