Comments on: Massachusetts No Success Story http://healthblog.ncpa.org/massachusetts-no-success-story/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe S. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/massachusetts-no-success-story/comment-page-1/#comment-44670 Joe S. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:08:27 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=4619#comment-44670 From everything I've read (especially at this blog site), access to care has not improved in Massachusetts. From everything I’ve read (especially at this blog site), access to care has not improved in Massachusetts.

]]> By: Devon Herrick http://healthblog.ncpa.org/massachusetts-no-success-story/comment-page-1/#comment-44634 Devon Herrick Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:46:48 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=4619#comment-44634 Because of the shortage of primary care providers in Massachusetts, I've heard a good number of left-leaving policy wonks admit that access to insurance isn't necessarily the same as access to care. Unfortunately, they don't seem to understand how to boost the supply of willing providers. When MinuteClinic wanted to open clinics in Boston, the city fought to keep them out. It seems nurse practitioners, providing a limited scope of practice in retail pharmacies, were not consider desirable. Health officials wanted everybody to have a medical home, where the doctor knows your name (and is willing to accept money-losing patients enrolled in the stingy, publically-subsidized health plan). Because of the shortage of primary care providers in Massachusetts, I’ve heard a good number of left-leaving policy wonks admit that access to insurance isn’t necessarily the same as access to care. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to understand how to boost the supply of willing providers. When MinuteClinic wanted to open clinics in Boston, the city fought to keep them out. It seems nurse practitioners, providing a limited scope of practice in retail pharmacies, were not consider desirable. Health officials wanted everybody to have a medical home, where the doctor knows your name (and is willing to accept money-losing patients enrolled in the stingy, publically-subsidized health plan).

]]> By: Ron Greiner http://healthblog.ncpa.org/massachusetts-no-success-story/comment-page-1/#comment-44626 Ron Greiner Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:18:40 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=4619#comment-44626 Mitt Romney is still selling and defending Massachusetts failed socialized medicine scam. Mitt Romney is still selling and defending Massachusetts failed socialized medicine scam.

]]> By: Brian W. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/massachusetts-no-success-story/comment-page-1/#comment-44625 Brian W. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:50:43 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=4619#comment-44625 If I remember correctly, the scientific method says something about correcting one's hypothesis when an experiment has failed. Yet after so many failed experiments (the Massachusetts health plan among them), Congress seems convinced that the universal coverage experiment will somehow work on the national level. Apparently, the key is to ignore what we've learned from the state-based experiments. If I remember correctly, the scientific method says something about correcting one’s hypothesis when an experiment has failed.

Yet after so many failed experiments (the Massachusetts health plan among them), Congress seems convinced that the universal coverage experiment will somehow work on the national level. Apparently, the key is to ignore what we’ve learned from the state-based experiments.

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