Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin was invited to speak to the annual meeting of Physicians for a National Health Program in Boston on Saturday.

And he did give his speech to the more than 400 doctors, medical students and activists who filled the Seaport Boston Hotel ballroom, touting his “single payer” plan in Vermont and being praised in return for raising the single payer banner.

But it wasn’t exactly a lovefest.

Here I sit, in West Virginia, staring down at January 1, 2014.

That’s when my health insurance policy expires and I have a decision to make — renew or not renew?