A new poll by Suffolk University shows that most Massachusetts citizens think their “near universal healthcare” is not something that the state can afford.
Q21. Do you think Massachusetts can afford the current system of near
universal healthcare?
Yes ……………………………………..34%
No ……………………………………… 56%
Undecided …………………………….10%
It would also not surprise me to learn that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is still singing the praises of CommonwealthCare, the state-run system conservatives also deride as RomneyCare, so named after Mitt Romney, Patrick’s allegedly Republican predecessor who brought it into being.
And…
The Boston Globe’s Liz Kowalczyk has inconveniently reminded statists (HT Hot Air) that the alleged wonders of the Bay State’s care regimen are instead leading it inexorably into serious rationing, and to a direct contradiction of Obama’s and Patrick’s core claims. Currently on the horizon are serious limitations on choice of care providers and annual capitated payments to those providers.
“You can’t reap these savings without limiting patients’ choices in some way,’’ said Paul Levy, chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “It’s a huge issue, it’s huge.’’ Dr. James Mongan, president of Partners HealthCare, a Beth Israel Deaconess competitor, agreed that it wouldn’t “work without some restriction on choice.’’
Watch at the 3 minute mark for the statements of Joseph Finder who is an ObamaCare & RomneyCare critic.
New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder joins the Great American Panel on “Hannity” (Fox News) to discuss his new novel VANISHED and the latest about healthcare coverage. Aired August 18, 2009.
Romney’s program appears to have done very little about the central problem–actually, the only real problem–with health care: spiraling costs. In seven of the last eight years, as economist Irwin Stelzer has noted, per-capita spending on health care in Massachusetts has increased faster than in the nation as a whole, and health insurance costs in the Bay State now run about a third higher than the national average.
What happens with government gets involved in mandating health care? Bad news. If Mitt Romney was President right now, he would be working with the Democrats for government health care AGAINST conservatives and Republicans. That is bad news.