What about Massachusetts' Romneycare? Wasn't that one?
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RomneyCare was similar to Obamacare, mostly based on an individual mandate to buy private sector plans.
Alaska's healthcare system kinda works like that, but only for Alaska Natives.
Do you mean anyone Alaska born or Native American Alaskans?
Specifically Native American Alaskans (i.e. those with a tribal ID)
Tribal Montanans have care through BIA. I wonder if BIA serves Tribal members anywhere in the US?
None
Edit: downvoted, really?
Yeah, I think this is the right answer. It's a bit shocking that none exist, but that doesn't mean it's untrue. Some may have existed but don't anymore (like the Vermont example in another reply).
The health insurance racket in the US is strong -- probably the strongest in the world -- and they have to ~~maintain~~ constantly expand their profits.
I was on Green Mountain Care https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform for a year or two when it was available in Vermont... it was absolutely genuine single payer insurance system that gave me access to no-copay services. Sadly the program was shuttered three years after it had been introduced but I remember it fondly. It was accessible, affordable, and extremely comforting to have access to.
So why was it stopped?
The official reason is that taxes would have been raised too much (from the linked Wikipedia article / accompanying source: https://www.salon.com/2014/12/18/vermont_abandons_plan_for_single_payer_health_care/)
So frustrating. I live in a country with something of a hybrid model. I pay very little at point of service and my taxes aren't super crazy or anything. Prices need to be clamped down upon.
Insirance companies couldn't just print money anymore.