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Costs soar for Mass. health care law
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| Apr. 12, 2008
| STEVE LeBLANC
Posted on 04/12/2008 8:49:42 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
04/12/2008 8:49:42 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
RomneyCare: You may find better quality, but you’ll never pay more.
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posted on
04/12/2008 8:53:40 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: neverdem
Message to Mitt Romney:
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posted on
04/12/2008 8:56:59 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
To: neverdem
When the government runs health care, it reduces choice and raises the costs of obtaining it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
04/12/2008 8:57:04 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: neverdem
I would like to hear from the people about what kind of care they are receiving.
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posted on
04/12/2008 8:58:57 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: neverdem
Lawmakers are hoping to close the gap in part with a new cigarette tax expected to generate about $154 million a year.Tax the poor and lower middle class to subsidize those who otherwise wouldn't bother to get health insurance (for whatever reason).
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posted on
04/12/2008 9:00:00 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
To: CindyDawg
With care like that, I’d rather have a government that doesn’t give a sh*t.
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posted on
04/12/2008 9:00:47 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
To: CindyDawg
If its available. The truth is the Left wants government to manage your health with all the efficiency of the DMV. Long lines and rationed care.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
04/12/2008 9:01:00 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The cigarette tax won't raise the revenue to cover the costs. Medical costs outpace those of inflation.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
04/12/2008 9:02:09 PM PDT
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goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I didn’t see anything in the article about quality. I would figure that if it was that great , there would have been some praises included.
To: CindyDawg
If government delivered affordable, quality health care to every one, then we should let government run it. It can't even manage that in Massachusetts. Why should we want to inflict that upon the rest of the country?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
04/12/2008 9:08:41 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: neverdem
I thought that cigarette taxes were meant to convince people to quit smoking.Yet,under this plan,if smokers in MA were to quit en masse many of the state's “victims” wouldn't get health care.
To: goldstategop
Government can’t even manage medicare.
To: Gay State Conservative
Well I would sure quit or roll my own.
To: goldstategop
If its available. The truth is the Left wants government to manage your health with all the efficiency of the DMV. Long lines and rationed care.Yup...health care delivered with the efficiency of the Postal Service and the compassion of the IRS.
To: CindyDawg
they can’t manage themselves out of a cardboard box.
To: neverdem
"but at least we are trying."The typical liberal answer when you ask them why their policies are sending us all to hell in a hand basket.
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posted on
04/12/2008 9:24:53 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: neverdem
What a surprise! Who would have thought? Government lying to the people - perpetually, forever, relentlessly, unaccountably. Frigging scumbags.
To: neverdem
Missing from the reporting is any attempt to quantify how much of the increase represents an increase in claims payout per enrolee. It appears that it’s almost all just because they built their original cost estimates based on a certain number of residents enrolling in subsidized care, and they’ve had more enrolees than they planned on having at this point in the program. In a way, that’s not surprising, given that 25 buck an employee fine situation. It’s a heck of a lot cheaper for a small business to pay the fine than to insure their employees.
The real question is going to be whether the cost of care and the utilization goes up or not. That’ll take a while to determine.
To: neverdem
How many illegals in the several Massachusetts sanctuary cities signed up for the mandatory health insurance?
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posted on
04/12/2008 10:11:55 PM PDT
by
DBrow
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