Mass. Socialized Healthcare Fails
It’s failing in Massachusetts, what makes any sane person think it will work nationwide?
Massachusetts is proud of its landmark 3-year-old health insurance law. It has brought the state’s proportion of uninsured down from around 10 percent in 2005 to only 2.6 percent — the lowest in the nation.
But the achievement is in jeopardy. Massachusetts has the highest health costs in the country.
“The critical point is whether or not we can begin to do something about cost control,” says Dolores Mitchell, who heads a state commission that buys coverage for 310,000 government workers and their families. “We’ve just got to do it.”
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So to make it cheaper:
To avoid a repeat of that experience, advocates of global payment say health providers will have to be watched closely.
“You need someone monitoring this,” says Nancy Kane of the Harvard School of Public Health. “You can’t just walk away because you’ve set the limit.”
Yes, government oversight always brings cost down.
And this:
Kane says there are also reliable ways now to protect health plans, so they don’t lose their shirts by signing up older or sicker patients.
See ya later Grandma, you cost too much.
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