CNN has been promoting this line all morning. They put two moron ‘experts’ on to say how well things are going in Mass with their health care plan. The John Roberts said the plan added 443,000 uninsured people to the roles of the insured. He said it only cost the state 88 million $ to add those people, which is a ‘drop in the bucket when you are talking billions and trillions’. I did a quick calculation that if he was correct, it cost the state less than $200 per person to add them to the roles. If anyone believes that crap they need their head examined.
CNN has now taken to outright shilling for Obamacare, telling lies and quoting morons who say the Mass plan is going well.
Ok Maybe my head needs to be examined. You are right that you can not insure someone for $200 dollars a person. It is more like $5,000 on average. But if the insured people come off Medicaid and if the uninsured start going to doctors' offices instead of the ER, and if most of the uninsured were healthy young people, and if there is less cost shifting resulting in lower premiums for the previously insured, then if you factor all that in, you might get to the $200 per person.
In fact, if you factor in everything, you might definitely get to $200 per person.
“I did a quick calculation that if he was correct, it cost the state less than $200 per person to add them to the roles. “
As others may have pointed out, this ‘works’ possibly in the sense that young and healthy people who are not insured get dragooned into health insurance and in effect subsidize others to get insured. It ‘works’ by being a backdoor tax increase on those who voluntarily went without health insurance, and by enlisting them into expensive plans.