Massachusetts Health Care: A Model for Disaster - The producers in society end up paying through the nose for these Marxist schemes

Subject:	Massachusetts Health Care: A Model for Disaster - The producers in society end up paying through the nose for these Marxist schemes
Date:	Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:25:55 -0500

Massachusetts Health Care: A Model for Disaster
By Bob Ellis on January 22nd, 2009

For those who want to push universal government health care on the American
people, the Massachusetts model implemented under Governor Mitt Romney has
been held up as a model.

But the Washington DC Examiner editorial on Jan. 11 paints a far less than
rosy picture of the alleged socialist utopia in Mass. In fact, they call it
"an embarrassing flop."

Among the problems.

State insurers jacking up rates to twice the national average. The piece
says 43 mandatory benefits, which many people didn't want or need, have
driven up costs 56%. Does everyone need invitro fertilization? Do most? Do
more than a handful?
Small businesses with more than 10 employees were forced to provide benefits
to their employees or be slammed with a tax
Costs of the program came in 85% higher than projected
Because payments to health care providers were slashed in an effort to slow
down the hemorrhaging budget, providers quit taking on new patients,
resulting in waits of more than a year for a simple
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Could anyone have seen such a debacle coming? Of course. All they would
have had to do was look to Canada or England.

For decades we have known that the socialist systems in these and other
countries are not working. Waiting lists of a year to a year and a half are
not at all rare in England and Canada.

In the world of "free" health care, you truly get what you pay for. The
only thing is, the producers in society end up paying through the nose for
these Marxist schemes.

In socialized systems, there is no incentive to keep costs down. Patients
don't pay for services (not directly), so they have no qualms about going to
the doctor or hospital for petty discomforts (I lived in England under the
National Health Service for three years-I know). Doctors also think nothing
of prescribing medications, tests and treatments which are
unnecessary-resulting in further cost and strain on the system.

And we know from experience that anything the government becomes involved in
immediately becomes bloated, inefficient and tremendously wasteful.

We must turn our system back toward a consumer-based model where people are
more involved in their own medical decisions, including costs.

Rather than push the American system further toward the disastrous European
model, we need to turn and run in the opposite direction, back to a free
market model, one compatible with the principles of Americanism that have
made us the greatest nation on earth.

Not only is government health care unconstitutional-because there is no
constitutional authority for it-it is grossly inefficient and a terrible
idea.

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/01/massachusetts-health-care-a-model-for-disaster/

CB
--
"There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the
majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse --
when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or
Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where
or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what
it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from
religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be
unwelcome -- others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be
those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to
justify partisan ends"
--Barack Obama

Commie Progressive Dim Lib would say providing cradle to grave welfare to
duh poo justifies the ends, even if it bankrupts America in the process. It
all in the process of rebuilding America into a slave nation to serve
gubment.

Can yuh gimmi an "amen"