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| Massachusetts's ObamaCare Light Heap Big Bad Medicine |
| 2010-11-18 |
| 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 |
| #6 (Didn't mean to sound the ass, working local and county bs seems a miracle anytime something gets put into place and behaves exactly how it should - off to work on that) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-18 21:17 |
| #5 Are you saying...government f@ks things up? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-18 21:09 |
| #4 Romneycare would have worked or at least not been such a disaster if it had not been amended and amended by the Mass legislature. The latter added mucho mandates, required coverage for all kinds of things, etc. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-11-18 17:20 |
| #3 This is why Mitt Romney, an otherwise decent fellow, will never be President. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-11-18 16:26 |
| #2 Obi-Wan Palin, you are our only hope. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-11-18 16:16 |
| #1 I'm paying 400 a month for an individual plan on COBRA and I'd better have it. The illegals got 37 million in freebie emergency room coverage last year. Methadone users on MassHealth got 1.5 million dollars worth of free livery rides to pick up their dose. I probably paid for that too. And that's probably the tip of the iceberg. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-18 12:56 |