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Though it violates both state and federal law, Massachusetts spent tens of millions of dollars to give illegal immigrants medical care—including prescription drugs, physical therapy and dental services—through its taxpayer-funded healthcare program for low-income individuals. Tax-paying residents of the Bay State should be outraged, to say the least. The information comes straight out of a scathing report that contains the findings of an investigation conducted by Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump. It reveals that questionable or prohibited medical claims totaling $35,137,347 were reimbursed by the state’s Medicaid agency known as MassHealth. A chunk of it went to non-emergency services for...

As Capital Hill noted last month, Vermont looks to be on the way to establishing a single-payer health care system. The single-payer fever is spreading throughout New England. This week the head of MassHealth, Massachusetts’ Medicaid program, said he favors a single-payer system too. New Englanders would do well to point-and-click their way over to “Patient Opinion”, a website that collects both compliments and complaints about the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.

Deconstructing Pipes(Mitt Romney's Real Health Care Record)Sally Canfield 15 November 2007 TownHall.com Since the Clinton Administration's ill-fated attempt to introduce government-run health care to the United States, mountains of paper have been produced analyzing our nation's health care system. And while Republicans and Democrats have spent countless hours debating themselves, the one group that has been left out of this debate is the American people. With 47 million Americans without some kind of health coverage, and millions more worried they will lose what coverage they have, one Governor knew the time for talking was over. What Governor Romney proved...