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Mass. health care as a model for Obama?
By MarkNavin on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:44am
This week on Radio Boston, we're asking, "can the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan be used as a model for national reform? The Obama administration has said it wants to expand health care coverage to many of the un-insured, and they're looking at the was we did it in the Bay State. Let us know what you think at www.radioboston.org.
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Healthcare "reform"?
I'm not certain I would call what we have reform. All we did was make it a crime for individuals to be uninsured. The spiraling costs for defensive medicine, malpractice insurance and the administration of the incredibly complex insurance and medicare claims remains exactly as it was before.
What?
My malpractice insurance premium has been the same for the past several years.
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I'm not certain I would call
That's pretty much what happened here. I hate to see it duplicated in other parts of the country or nationwide for that matter. Since this law took effect my insurance premiums have gone through the roof. So much for all that talk of it bringing down the cost of insurance. The penalizing people with fines is just craziness. It leaves people somewhere in the middle (making too much to qualify for any subsidies and making too little to afford private plans) deciding whether to go bankrupt purchasing private insurance or just ponying up the fines on top of paying out of pocket for any medical care I may require. I believe in expanding access to health care. I don't think this was so much an expansion of access as it was just a forcing people to buy insurance under fear of penalty.