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Massachusetts's ObamaCare Light Heap Big Bad Medicine
The highest health insurance costs, the highest medical costs and the fastest rising costs. Massachusetts has them all, thanks to Romney. And they're getting worse.Meanwhile the Herald reported yesterday that the folks at the beloved Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector created under Romneycare are "cracking down on more than 3,000 residents who are fighting state fines, and has even hired a private law firm to force the health insurance scofflaws to pay penalties of up to $2,000 a year." Big Brother is watching - and suing - you. Everything about Romneycare is awful. Until a change in the law this year, it actually incentivized people to go without insurance, or buy a minimalist plan. Then, as Romney's fellow Republican Charlie Baker pointed out, if they get diagnosed with an expensive illness, these people can sign up for top-of-the-line coverage, get their immediate issues addressed, run up a big bill and then drop their insurance and go back to paying the fine for being uninsured. According to Forbes magazine, these treatments include hospitalization for childbirth or hip replacements. And who was left holding the bag? The "honest" insured, who got stuck with still-higher premiums, and insurance companies like the nonprofit Blue Cross, which is suffering losses under Romneycare. Forbes also reports that the median annual premium for family plans jumped 10 percent from 2007 to 2009 to $14,300 - both figures much higher than the national average. And if you're a taxpayer, your costs went up even more. Before Romneycare, you were on the hook for $1 billion for Medicaid and other state health care subsidies. Less than three years later, the taxpayer bill has gone up another $750 million - a 75 percent increase! Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-18 |
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