Comments on: How Much Do We Really Know About the Massachusetts Health Plan?

By: cathy

cathy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:14:27 +0000

You can go to the health care debate blogs and let them know what is happening in your state.I had a blog link from unhappy folks in MASS and all their comment disappeared.Go to the link and send all your friends to comment.Ther are sevseral thread in different states.Copy and paste in your browser
http://www.topix.com/issue/health-care

By: marlene swift

marlene swift — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:05:01 +0000

HOW AND WHY CAN’T WE GET MORE INFORMATION OUT TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT HOW THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN MASSACHUESTTES ISN’T WORKING?

IF THERE IF ANYTHING I CAN DO I WILL BE HAPPY TO.

By: get real, spinsters!

get real, spinsters! — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:44:52 +0000

what was the real issue is that MASS has near UNIVERSAL healthcare, courtesy of their representatives, including the late great Ted Kennedy! the rest of the US does not have near-UNIVERSAL healthcare! duh! so i agree with Pelosi and the others whose comments are being spun by not including the entire concept they are communicating about MASS! That is why MASS did not want anything changed, esp by the basterdized/watered-down-compromised bogus bill in the Senate, now; after all the effort to reach a compromise and please the right and those whose best interests have been a roadblock in true change and progress! I hope the new MASS Senator helps make the US healthcare near-UNIVERSAL for the rest of us, so MASS does not feel threatened by the other 49 states of this great changing country! THE KEY POINT IS: MASS already has a practically complete UNIVERSAL health care regulation in place! SHAME on those dirty commie, socialist in the NE! HOW DARE THEY?

plus, in mass, the democrat was a given for months prior to the election, but apparently is not a very qualified candidate, and was a probable poor choice as Ted’s replacement! i can see why they chose the other candidate! btw, i think there is polling that justifies that the majority of MASS endorses a public option, just not the version in the Senate at this point of butchering!

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:14:24 +0000

By Pelosi’s reasoning, Congress already has health care and so should not be allowed to determine what the rest of the country gets.

By: John Goodman

John Goodman — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:33:03 +0000

This is from Sue Blevins:

Rasmussen Reports found in November 2009: “In 2006, Massachusetts implemented its own statewide version of health care reform and 32% of the state’s voters consider that reform a success. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Bay State finds that 36% consider the plan a failure and another 32% are not sure. Read more: http://bit.ly/6gARqi (source: “In Massachusetts, 32% Consider State’s Health Care Reform a Success,” Rasmussen Reports, November 27, 2009).

By: Linda Gorman

Linda Gorman — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:17:06 +0000

To artk:

Did you really mean to equate coverage with access?

You should also note Cannon and Yelowitz, in the paper cited above, find that gains in coverage have been overstated by nearly 50 percent while costs have been understated by at least one-third. It has also apparently made Massachusetts a less likely place to move to, at least for the young.

By: artk

artk — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:55:09 +0000

The Massachusetts Health Plan has solved the access problem, some 98% of the state is now covered. There are cost problems, but the entier system has cost problems. Ask any small business owner about the annual increases in his group plan rates.

By: Stephen C.

Stephen C. — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:10:56 +0000

The mainstream media has done a poor job of covering all the warts and blemishes in the Massachusetts Health Plan.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:14:30 +0000

Remember, Scott Brown voted for this plan. Sorry to rain on today’s parade.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:03:52 +0000

Pelosi is clueless, as usual.