Massachusetts: Spread the Pain! Mandatory Insurance!

in the early evening on Thursday, the 14th of August 2008 by Tina

I recalled hearing about Massachusetts talking about this, but I had no idea they were stupid and insane enough to put it into action! Well it can now be official Massachusetts has become a communist state!

They expect the cost of this mandatory insurance policy to be Shared by ALL! And what a great slogan for this brain-dead idea… “Spread the PAIN”.

Many signed up through their employers, but more than 150,000 others are taking advantage of a state subsidy, creating a huge funding gap — a $150 million shortfall that comes at a time when the economy is struggling and health care costs are rising.
Gov. Deval Patrick is calling on insurers, employers and hospitals to help cover costs. Many people have seen their co-pays and premiums rise, and a new cigarette tax is in the works.
“Our goal here is to spread the pain, as people are saying, and to continue the concept of shared responsibility which we think is part of the reason why Massachusetts has been successful,” Bigby said. “Everybody is contributing to the cost.”

Uninsured dropped from 14% to 7%.. They even state they had the pile of funds and a lower number of uninsured.. yet they are expecting others to chip in… and this is only after this Mandatory Insurance policy has been in effect for 2 years! Imagine the whole nation having a Mandatory Insurance Policy?

“We had the advantage … of having a pot of money that was already available to be able to redirect to the reform efforts to cover more people,” said Robert Seifert, a senior associate with the Center for Health Law and Economics. “We also had a relatively low level of people without health insurance, so [there was] sort of a less steep hill to climb.”

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