nytimes.com - 3/16/2009
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In order to pay for the state’s runaway health costs, Gov. Deval Patrick and a state commission have set out to revamp the way hospitals and doctors are reimbursed. >
boston.com - 3/23/2009
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boston.com —
BOSTON — Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps
the boldest state health care experiment in American history,
bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed. To make it happen, Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Mitt ...
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Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan
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The Moral: Cut Costs First
The Glittering Eye —
As practically everybody predicted (well, I did, anyway), the Massachusetts health care plan has run into problems:
BOSTON — Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed.
To make it happen, Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, made an expedient choice, deferring until another day any serious effort to control the state’s runaway health costs.
The day of reckoning has arrived. ...
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The Caucus —
... the Senate Finance Committee in charge of helping Chairman Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, iron out the details of their committee’s health care proposal. Mitt Romney will also appear on ABC. The former governor of Massachusetts has been making a lot of public appearances talking about the economy. As governor, Mr. Romney brought near-universal health coverage to the state to try to control the state’s skyrocketing health care costs. But three years later, and in a souring economy, lawmakers have struggled to rein in the costs of providing public health insurance. Vice ...
Gov. Romney was wrong on health care
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... Gov., you stated that in Massachusetts you have a model that "worked." Exactly what you mean by "worked"? Massachusetts has a system that is spending 33% more on health care than the national average. Why is that? ...
Kristol channeling
The Reaction —
... . He also throws in the knock on universal health care and points out that the president is pushing "a health care plan that looks a lot like the system currently hemorrhaging money in Massachusetts." What Mr. Douthat forgets -- or ignores -- is that the Massachusetts plan was promoted and signed by Mitt Romney, who is often mentioned as the leading contender as the GOP candidate in 2012. ...
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Megan McArdle —
... questions remain. Will the health-care co-ops be exempt from the tangle of state regulations that have resulted in near-monopolies in many areas? I presume that Democrats still want guaranteed issue and an individual mandate, but aren't these the parts that are actually going to anger constituents? In Massachussetts, more people seem to think they've been hurt by the plan than helped by it. Meanwhile, the costs are skyrocketing, and control has so far been elusive. The core problem is this. You have four groups of uninsured ...
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