[DontTreadOnMe2009]

$3,000 per person in the state

Plus what the state paid

Plus what the taxpayers paid

No one to do the math, right?

[onona]

Hmmmm, I wonder what the death panel situation is looking like in Mass. Any care refusal stories out there yet ?

[Darkwolf377]

It’s funny how all the libs I know here in Boston who were braying about how Patrick was a “competent black businessman” and how healthcare is a right and all that haven’t brought up either topic in MONTHS. When they inevitably do, I’m sure they will drone on about how I’m a selfish whatever and I don’t care about the poor and so on, completely ignoring those statistics and figures that were so damned important to them for a couple of years.

[jocon307]

The NY Post usually has dreadful comments, when it has any at all. Surprisingly this article has one good comment from “Cats”. Cats says “This plan was the “brainchild” of then-Governor Mitt Romney. Remember that whenever he is touted as the leading candidate for the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States. Do Conservatives want Mitt Romney at the head of the Republican Party ticket? I for one do not and would not support him in primaries and would not vote for the Republican ticke[t] were he at the top.”

I think it would be helpful if Romney just threw in the towel RIGHT NOW.

[Erik Latranyi]

Countdown to the assault on doctor pay in the name of “reducing costs” and “getting even” with the wealthy.

[rbg81]

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.

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I wonder how much of that is due to illegals? It really doesn’t make sense that having more people insured would increase emergency room visits. One common sense solution (which I never hear) is to turn most of these people away from emergency room and send them to these primary care clinics in strip malls. Most of these “emergencies” are things those clinics could deal with at a fraction of the cost. But that would be MEAN.

[wiggen]

“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.”
The precious line in here is,”to help make the Massachusetts reform work.....” Wait. It doesn’t pay for itself now and won’t in the future so how is that making it work?
I think the real basic root difference between conservatives and liberals is we have a survival instinct and they don’t. If something not only doesn’t work but is causing harm to many then we say drop it and they put their hands out for more money. Same instinct is at work with illegals immigration.

[Buckeye McFrog]

this is why Mitt Romney needs to have a major “Mea Culpa, I was SO wrong!” speech very soon if he hopes to have any prayer in ‘12.

[GailA]

Soylent Green by cartoonistx

WE THE PEOPLE BY RAY STEVENS

[2ndDivisionVet]

The majority of citizens currently disapprove of 15 out of 16 of Mr. Barack Obama’s policies/legislation. To be succinct: Nothing has improved since his election, but a number of things have gotten worse.

In the 2010 and 2012 elections, the “Party of No” may easily prove to be preferable to “The Party of Yes We Can Drag the Country into a New Recession/Great Depression.” Perhaps it is time to stop and take a number of deep breaths.

Mr. Obama’s recent Home Affordable Modification Program is an utter failure by anyone’s reckoning and is the latest example of the man’s inability to think at a national level. He is a glib amateur.

Mr. Obama will lose to whoever might run against him in 2012 unless that person is former Governor Mitt Romney. He is the only person that can keep Mr. Obama in office and cause us four more years of suffering high unemployment and huge deficits.