[rabscuttle385]

How did we become outlaws?

Here's how, Wendy.

[rabscuttle385]

*Ping!*

[pnh102]

Move. Massachusetts does not deserve your money.

[OneHun]

"My husband and I weren't convinced. It all seemed inane, but we are neither politically or socially conservative and figured the plan wouldn't affect us much. Besides, who could be against a plan that covers more people for less money?"

These are the people who vote for every Rat fraud and now are looking for sympathy. They think that implementing marxist/socialist ideology will bring freedom and prosperity in our life.

 

[lowbridge]

bump

[Jack Hammer]

Ho-hum; daily life in Marxachusetts. Soon coming to a national government near you.

[napscoordinator]

What coverage will you get for 1,000 a year from your state? I mean what would you do if you had a heart attack? Do you have 50,000 dollars to pay out of pocket? If you pay the 1,000 dollars, do you get 100 percent coverage in case of a heart attack? I know some here don’t like this, but I wonder what most would do if they have a hospital bill that they did not plan for and do not have insurance. It just seems so risky to me.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Gov. Mitt Romney pushed through the state legislature a health-care plan that he promised would provide universal coverage while lifting from the middle-class the burden of having to pay for those who do not have insurance. His argument was that the uninsured drove up the cost of health care for everyone by seeking care at emergency rooms and then skipping out on their medical bills. Hospitals make up for those unpaid bills by charging everyone else more than they otherwise would.

The article contains a clear statement of the problem. It doesn't address the political consequences. I pay 10 times the premium that Wendy was paying (yes mine is a family of four while hers is for two and I am older).

Time after time I have seen people who are uninsured getting hospitalized but not at their expense, but at mine. My premiums are outrageous because I am picking up the burden of others. I really can't feel empathy for Wendy who is paying 1/10th of my premium. The real solution is to deny health care to those who won't pay.

All the pissing an moaning about socialized health-care is meaningless until those who won't contribute are denied benefits. That's the political problem that needs to be faced.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The author of the column stepped on the wrong toes in her book about the proposal to build offshore wind turbines at the Cape and the negative reaction of the Kennedy's and their ilk. From a review:

[. . .(Congressman William)Delahunt hated the wind farm. Or, at least, he said he hated it. Delahunt was widely seen as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's man. What Ted Kennedy hated, Bill Delahunt hated. And Ted Kennedy loathed Cape Wind with an unwavering ardor that curiously belied the environmental ideals he so often proclaimed from the floor of the U.S. Senate. Nantucket Sound, Delahunt repeated, is a “precious resource.”]

[Ironically, Delahunt was fighting a proposal that promised to help his own economically stressed hometown. One proposed assembly site for the massive wind turbines, whose parts would arrive from all over the globe, was a closed-down Quincy shipyard. The closing of the yard had devastated the city. Its reopening would give unemployed Quincy workers many highly paid jobs.]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/53210