On May 3, 2006, at 1:32 PM, anony_sleuth_ff wrote:
> What about Mass.'s recent plan?
Mass's plan follows of the heels of Maine's plan, the first in the
US, which I'm sorry to say has been an utter failure in terms of
costs. Could you get reasonable healthcare and was your premium based
on your abilitiy to pay? Yes it is, but the state infrastructure and
the cost of this state-run system has essentially become a state
subsidized system which cost millions and millions of dollars to
cover a couple thousand people who weren't covered before. And then
in order to achieve this they tried to undercut reimbursements to all
the small hospitals, driving them to the verge of collapse. It sounds
good on paper, but in reality you were paying a huge price to insure
very few people. What ended up happening was people who had insurance
before jumped on the state plan (which is called "Dirigo" after the
state motto) to get the cheaper subsidized rates--and essentially the
medical system and the taxpayers ended up paying for it.
Huge cost, small benefit.
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