Mass.worries: may find US health care changes costly As rules stand now, poorer to pay more By Patrick Lee Globe Correspondent /June 22, 2010
Thanks to liberal icon Sen Ted Kennedy, Mass has had the much heralded “universal health care” since 2006---and it is still in the implimentation process. In 2014 the US tax payer contribution to the liberal bastion is expected to be $425,000,000/yr---or more. About a third of the fedl tax dollars will go to subsidize healthcare premiums for those who earn less than $43,000. And coincidenally, about a third of working adults earn $30,000 or less. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/22/mass_may_find_us_health_care_changes_costly/ When Teddy died and was unexpectedly replaced by a Republican, Scott Brown questioned why Mass should pay for their own plan plus be “paying for everyone else” too. This despite the fact that Mass was receiving “$385,000,000/yr in federal Medicaid funds. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/01/21/78525/brown-subsidized/?mobile=nc According to Sen Kerry, the repeal of Mass universal healthcare would be “dangerous” because the state would lose $4,000,000,000 (that’s right, billions, not just millions) fedl tax dollars. http://www.kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=140912ba-5a23-4f08-ab2f-cd44d7ea2beb Half of Romney’s Massachusetts Health Care Plan was Paid for by the Federal Govt http://www.democrats.org/news/january-19-GOP-debate/half_of_romneys_massachusetts_health_care_plan_was_paid_for_by_the_federal_ Here’s what I don’t get, if a small state like MA needs nearly a half tril to subsidize Obamacare, who’s going to subsidize the other 49 states when it goes national? Massachusetts has a long history of being subidized by the rest of the country. Remember the “Big Dig”? The US tax payer can be proud of their contribution. http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/highway/TheBigDig/TunnelsBridges.aspx $14.6 billion later, Boston's Big Dig wraps up The last big highway section opens this weekend, but concerns on costs dampen party. http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/highway/TheBigDig/TunnelsBridges.aspx Andrew Breitbart He was one of ours Join Tea Party Nation http://www.teapartynation.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network . . . -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
