Massachusetts Makes a Health Care Mess (Romneycare)

Young people, have an additional expense every month of 300. to 400. that they cannot afford, for a “service” they cannot use. Most of them are healthy adults who generally do not need a doctors care, so if they do, it is a check-up, or to get an antibiotic or something equally as minute. With deductibles of 2500. a year, the “service” is of no use to them, but they still must pay the monthly fee, if they don’t they are fined, or signed up for masscare, which is medicaid. They end up staying home much much longer because they cannot afford cars and car insurance on top of it when they are just starting out. Same delema meets families but with higher premiums.

That is only ONE example. The waits for a doctors appt is up to 6 and 8 months right now, and will get worse. They have now instituted “group appts”, so if a doctor has 10 patients coming in for the same symptoms, they see a nurse practitioner as a group. AND, premiums are way up across the board for any medical insurance. There is more but off the top of my head, those are a few bad things about it.

Well at least, Romney made abortions practicely free...

I just bought a holiday Lego set that cost more than a Massachusetts Slick Willard abortion.

There are Holiday Barbie dolls that cost more than a Massachusetts Slick Willard abortion...

The article doesn’t make the plan look awful, like I thought it would. Any Freepers from that fine state that can give us more information?

There are other opinions out there. I guess it depends on one's motivation and on which facts are highlighted or ignored

You have to admit that what they ended up with was much better than the public option route the liberal state legislature would have imposed on MA had Romney not worked out a compromise with the help of the conservative Heritage Foundation. Don't think the Heritage Foundation and the gov set out together to implement some socialist takeover of the system. Their goal was to avoid it.

Critics ignore the fact that the fundamental problem is not the costs of Commonwealth Care but rather the unprecedented collapse of state tax revenues.
http://www.masstaxpayers.org/publications/8
Health law costs aren’t the problem

Up to 98% of the citizens are enrolled in a health insurance plan and 69% of the public expressed approval for the Massachusetts Health Care plan.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/08/05/mass_bashers_take_note_health_reform_is_working/
Mass. bashers take note: Health reform is working

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From the comment section:

“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously beyond the power of Congress.” --Linder v. United States, 1925. http://supreme.justia.com/us/268/5/case.html

So critiques of Romneycare aside, Romneycare is perfectly legal under the Constitution while Obamacare isn't.

Yeah, y'all don't want the MA health care mess. You can ONLY buy a plan that is approved by the legislature, and they have larded up the requirements on even the basic plans, so that they're well over $15K. Hubby had left his job, so we didn't have a group plan anymore, so we had to buy individual insurance. The first year, we had a basic plan that was $9K, and we were satisfied with that, because we also had an HSA to pay co-pays, and meds out of pocket. Unfortunately that only lasted one year, until the Legislature realized that in order to cover everyone, we'd have to be made to buy Prescription Drug Coverage, too, to the tune of an additional $4K a year! We neither wanted it, nor needed it, but the only other choice is to do without insurance and pay the fine.

What we'd love to have is a Catastrophic Insurance policy that pays for Hospital Stays, and bills that together go over $25,000 in a year. And that allows for an HSA of around $10K a year from which we could pay in full for regular doctor visits, regular screenings like a Mammogram, Pap Smear, & colonoscopy, and for our meds. There's no reason to have insurance to do that regular maintenance, we just want something to cover us in the event of an illness that costs us more than we can handle from regular funds. If we had the ability to buy insurance outside the state, we could probably find one like that.

If Obamacare passes, we're ALL screwed, because there won't be anywhere else to go.