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Twenty-six percent (26%) of Massachusetts voters say their state’s health care reform effort has been a success. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that 37% say the reform effort has been a failure, while another 37% are not sure.

Only 10% of Bay State voters say the quality of health care has gotten better as a result of the reform plan while 29% say it has gotten worse. Most (53%) say the quality of care has not changed.

As for cost, 21% say the reform has made health care more affordable in Massachusetts. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say health care is now less affordable while 44% see no change.

Massachusetts: 26% Consider State’s Health Care Reform a Success

I live in MA, if you don’t have healthcare you get fined when you file your state taxes every year, I forget how much a month but it adds up, secondly as far as doctors are concerned, if you are on the government plan chances are the doctor you had before is not on the plan, they don’t want any part of it, a lot of people who were not insured due to being unemployed and unable to afford COBRA are forced to go on the government plan and when they do they can’t see the doctor they’ve been seeing for years, they have to travel to the other side of the state to find one under the government plan and from what I’ve heard the quality of care is not the same and the wait time to see said doctor is longer....when you’ve been seeing a particular doc for years you just pick up the phone and say hey doc I’m sick when can I come in, chances are you’re in that afternoon or the next morning, not under government plan, you go to the bottom of the list and you’d be lucky to get seen in a month. The cost of having to insure everyone else is costing the rest of us big money, everyone’s plan has been changed, we are getting less and paying more, PLUS gaysachusetts wants to give “the poor” FREE dental care, they’re already getting cars, cellphones, food stamps, housing, healthcare now they’re getting dental that the rest of us have to pay for, some of us don’t have dental insurance so we pay as we go, now we won’t be able to go because we’ve got to pay for someone else.....

Cost and whether or not it has improved is only part of the problem. People are forced in most cases, to chose medical insurance cost or some other need. They are forced to purchase policies that cost 250. a month or so, for single person, and must hit 2500. deductible before the insurance covers anything. So they are paying every month to pay for others medical care, as no healthy person reaches the deductible. For most people it is a waste, and little more than a tax to pay for those who get state pd. medical care. Which is why a LOT of people have gone on the state pd. medical coverage instead. The state has gained nothing.

Oh and lest I forget, everyone’s policy must cover things like abortion. Even if you are past child bearing age, or you are a male.