Posted on 08/16/2010 8:09:54 AM PDT by Starman417
Anyone who wants to see the end result of ObamaCare need look no further than the Massasschussets version of it, nearly identical in every aspect to ObamaCare.
When the Bay State passed its health-reform law in 2006, 9 percent of non-elderly adults lacked insurance; that's now down to 5 percent. The law didn't reduce expensive emergency-room use as predicted. Instead, emergency-room visits have climbed by 9 percent, or about 3 million visits, from 2004 to 2008. But it's bankrupting the state, while the pressures on small businesses and on health-care insurers and providers continue to build toward the breaking point.Health care now consumes 35 percent of the state budget, up from 22 percent in 2000. Patrick recently asked Washington for $473 million to help make the Massachusetts reform work -- on top of the $1.2 billion in support the feds have already kicked in over three years, more than $3,000 per person in the state.
Whenever the federal help stops coming, the Bay State will have to either hike taxes further to fund its program, or start cutting benefits. Reimbursements are already so low under the state-subsidized plans (most of whose 152,000 enrollees pay nothing) that doctors are already refusing to accept new patients with that "coverage." Yet small businesses are clearly finding it necessary to dump their employees on the public health plans. The Boston Globe recently reported on a broker who helps firms do just that; his practice is booming. He's seen about 90 business owners terminate their plans since April.
Increase use of emergency room visits - Check Increase costs of medical care - Check Force you into plans you don't want - Check Increase taxes and/or cut benefits - Check
Wonderful.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
But ObamaCare will work just fine because it is too big to fail! < / sarcasm >
Of course, it’s wonderful. Romney even said so.
Ping for anyone asking why Mitt Romney is a bad deal for America in 2012!
As a Massachusetts resident, I have one word for anyone considering supporting Romney: DON’T.
But, but, but - How could that possibly be true? All the economic models build by the MIT professors of Economics said that the cost wouldn’t increase - the bills for all these deadbeats were being paid anyway by those with insurance - this would just spread the burden. At least that’s what the PhD student I argued with was telling everyone.
Ah, there's the flaw in their logic.
I used to be the super in a building with several Harvard/MIT students and a couple of professors. Seeing how one of these geniuses reacts to a leaky faucet forever changed my view of anything related to harvard or MIT.
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