Subsidized care plan's cost to double (Uh, oh...bad news for Romney's Healthcare plan)

The Boston Globe ^ | 02/03/2008 | BamaBelle

[BamaBelle]

State projections obtained by the Globe show the program reaching 342,000 people and $1.35 billion in annual expenses by June 2011. Those figures would far outstrip the original plans for the Commonwealth Care program, largely because state officials underestimated the number of uninsured residents.

The state has asked the federal government to shoulder roughly half of the program's cost from 2009 through 2011, but there is no guarantee of that funding. Commonwealth Care provides free or subsidized insurance for low- and moderate-income residents.

[BamaBelle]

So now the Feds are being asked to bailout this program?

[eyedigress]

It becomes a state funded scrip plan for the street. Sheesh!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Boston Globe is a totally democrat paper.

Democrats, with suspicious timing, trying to undermine the candidate they most fear as an opponent:

Mitt Romney.

[fhayek]

State run health care is a mistake, no matter who proposes it...

[Perdogg]

Is Romney the Governor of Mass now? No.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Please post the correct deficit numbers, if the Globe didn’t
get them right...

It sounds like the program is an anchor around the neck of the
state and they are trying to pass the bill to everyone who
doesn’t live in MA.

Romney’s best work, I’ve heard...

[VeniVidiVici]

Amazing the Globe comes up with these figures AFTER Romney steps down as governor while he is running for President.

I’m sure they were all for it in the runup to the vote. Peachy-keen numbers and everything.

[Tennessee Nana]

RINO Romney loved his illegal aliens while he was Gov of Mass

Now there are more of them and all needing free RomneyCare

[ellery]

And Romney wants all the states to adopt “universal healthcare” programs, using our federal tex dollars as incentive.

Fantastic.

[MinuteGal]

In one of the debates, Mitt mentioned how the Democrat administration in Massachusetts started putting all the usual bells and whistles on the program. It's probably not even recognizable now from what it was.

Does this surprise anyone? It shouldn't. This is what Democrats do. And they get away with it.

Leni

[stylin19a]

didn’t anybody look at TennCare before thinking about enacting this crappola ?

[Rome2000]

Always not MYTHS fault.

Getting pretty pathetic

[americanophile]

Give it up Huckabeasts!

[Shortstop7]

I thought the Huckabeasts were extinct by now?

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

The state has asked the federal government to shoulder roughly half of the program's cost from 2009 through 2011

NONONONONO! I live in Iowa. I don't want my taxes going to pay for Mass people's healthcare!!!

They don't pay for mine!

THIS is socialism! Government grabs in everybody's money and provides for those most "deserving"

[Afronaut]

Uh, oh...bad news for Romney's Healthcare plan

At least his favorite team won:

[GOP Poet]

To begin with the Governor after Mitt added all sorts of expenditures to this plan. Secondly and I can not emphasize this enough . . . TIMING! Someone is spinnin’. Someone is scared of Mitt Romney as well as they should be. He is a formidable opponent and will be a darn good president of the United States of America. Much better then crazy “I hate them gooks” McCain (understandable his anger. However do we need someone who said this angry message just this past week dealing with our international foes and friends?). Mitt Romney is also heads and tails above them all including and especially including Hillary and Obama.

[Mojave]

Is Romney the Governor of Mass now? No.

Is Romney a Founding Father of socialized medicine in America? Yes.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“Boston Globe”. (flaming leftists, all)

Democrats, with suspicious timing, trying to undermine the candidate they most fear as an opponent:

Mitt Romney.

That’s more than enough data points for me, to decide what this article is about.

Because that is exactly, what this article is about.

[Mojave]

That’s not the correct title.