Massachusetts' Obama-like Reforms Increase Health Costs, Wait Times

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If you are curious about how President Barack Obama's health plan would affect your health care, look no farther than Massachusetts. In 2006, the Bay State enacted a slate of reforms that almost perfectly mirror the plan of Obama and congressional Democrats.

Those reforms reveal that the Obama plan would mean higher health insurance premiums for millions, would reduce choice by eliminating both low-cost and comprehensive health plans, would encourage insurers to avoid the sick and would reduce the quality of care.

Massachusetts reduced its uninsured population by two-thirds -- yet the cost would be considered staggering, had state officials not done such a good job of hiding it. Finally, Massachusetts shows where "ObamaCare" would ultimately lead: Officials are already laying the groundwork for government rationing.

The most sweeping provision in the Massachusetts reforms -- and the legislation before Congress -- is an "individual mandate" that makes health insurance compulsory. Massachusetts shows that such a mandate would oust millions from their low-cost health plans and force them to pay higher premiums.

The necessity of specifying what satisfies the mandate gives politicians enormous power to dictate the content of every American's health plan -- a power that health care providers inevitably capture and use to increase the required level of insurance.

RealClearPolitics - Massachusetts' Obama-like Reforms Increase Health Costs, Wait Times


In short: Obamacare = FAIL for everyone

 

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it will fail, if we do not learn from the mistakes and the good measures of all of the states that have instituted a universal health care system for their state citizens....they are tests that should be reviewed and improved upon.

it will fail and be nothing but a gift horse to the insurance industry if a public option or a nonprofit private coop option for citizens to opt to buy, is not offered...since insurance is a mandate in this bill...it will be just like massachusetts.

ALSO, it is a MUST that the federal guidelines for Doctors and nurses be INCREASED, along with medical tech schools increasing in size and numbers.

if those 2 things were included in this bill, it would be a better bill and cost less, in the long run imo.

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