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Mandated benefits increase insurance premiums
From a Boston Globe op-ed on mandated benefits: None of the 32 current mandates is a budget buster, but taken together they do add to premiums. A study last year by the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy found … Continue reading
Obama Care
We all agree that medical care should cost less and be available to more people. The problem is that most of the health care reform proposals coming from Congress and the White House are reforms designed to give government more … Continue reading
MassHealth has higher claim denial rate than commercial insurers
From the Boston Globe: The state government Medicaid plan known as MassHealth, which covers low-income patients who can’t afford insurance, was the slowest payer of health claims to Massachusetts doctors last year, averaging 56 days, and denied the highest share … Continue reading
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Tagged coverage is not care, denied claims, Massachusetts health
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What the Failure of the “Massachusetts Model” Tells Us about Health Care Reform
Michael Tanner at Cato has a new briefing paper: Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable: What the Failure of the “Massachusetts Model” Tells Us about Health Care Reform Here’s the summary: When Massachusetts passed its pioneering health care reforms in 2006, … Continue reading
Tough luck for the poor in Massachusetts
From the New York Times: The difficulties in receiving care were severest among low-income residents, who have gained the most from expanded access under the state’s law, passed in 2006. It requires most residents to have health insurance and provides … Continue reading
Mandatory insurance, but less access in Massachusetts
Yet an other example of how having medical “coverage” does not mean getting needed care, here’s one more warning to those who want mandatory insurance. From John R. Graham at StateHouseCall: A recent white paper by the New England Healthcare … Continue reading
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Tagged coverage is not care, mandatory insurance, Massachusetts health
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Still waiting for medical care in Massachusetts
From the Boston Globe: Despite Boston’s abundance of top-notch medical specialists, the waits to see dermatologists, obstetrician-gynecologists, and orthopedic surgeons for routine care have grown longer – to as much as a year for the busiest doctors. … Patients in … Continue reading
Mandated insurance…runaway costs…price controls, political rationing
The Wall Street Journal‘s commentary on Massachusetts-style government-run medicine and how it’s a model for a national disaster. So snippets: In Massachusetts’s latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government … Continue reading
Will Massachusetts authorities ration medical care?
From the New York Times: Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed. … …government and industry officials agree that the plan will … Continue reading
HB 1273: Politicians cannot “guarantee” health care
Politicians cannot guarantee healthcare, but by trying they can create an unaccountable and toxic insurance monopoly. So beware of Colorado House Bill 1273, which will be heard by the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee on March 18. The Rocky … Continue reading