Posted on 03/31/2009 8:48:15 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
For folks increasingly leery of President Obamas plan to radically overhaul Americas health-care system, or 17 percent of the nations economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romneys brainchild, Massachusetts grand experiment in universal health care.
Initiated on Mr. Romneys gubernatorial watch in 2006, this experiment has fallen on hard times, and predictably so. Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide, RomneyCare is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million, or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents, has caused Massachusetts overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.
So what does Mr. Romneys successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs? Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage. As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, It would never happen here. But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.
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Over $5,000 a head.
Didn't Tennessee discontinue their similar plan as unaffordable? And Hawaii (but I think that was just for children)?
"Mr. politician please name one (1) country or state where socialized health care is successful".
That is a good question, but first of all, please define "successful".
Just what would a successful socialized medicine program look like?
Who are we going to support in the next election?
Jindal? Palin? Are we going to go through another primary with no good choices?
“...most schools pay about $8000.00 a student...”
Whom do they pay? They sure aren’t paying me or my children.
I think you have it reversed. I pay them. Whether I use them or not. It’s coercive, and it restricts my choices for educating my children.
My point is that universal health care (what this thread was about) will operate similarly. You will have to pay, like it or not, and your options for care will be restricted.
You’re not, by chance, a public school teacher?
yes.....WE pay $8000.00 a student. NO I’m not a public school teacher but I SOUNDED like one.
Say what? You mean it’s not “just like forcing you to buy auto insurance” as Broncobilly once told me or “much better than what the democrats would have done” as someone said. It’s exactly what the democrats wanted and they could have passed it over his veto if he had opposed it.
Or I suppose it’s all Deval’s fault cause he can’t run the socialist program properly like a genius like Romney can.
“I’m Alf Landon and I approve this message because as a Republican I can run FDR’s socialist programs better than him. I can’t believe I only won 2 states with that great platform.”
Naturally. One thing republicans might of proposed was a personal mandatory emergency room insurance policy, for those without insurance. The federal government already forces emergency room to treat patients, including illegals, and no republican suggests changing this law.There would have to be a punishment for those that show up for treatment without it, illegals.
In Maryland they socialize the cost by taxing our hospital bills directly to pay for uninsured. Maryland is illegal friendly and this makes the hospitals illegal friendly.
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