"•Although the state has reduced the number of residents without health insurance, 200,000 people remain uninsured. Moreover, the increase in the number of insured is primarily due to the state’s generous subsidies, not the celebrated individual mandate.
•Health care costs continue to rise much faster than the national average.
Answer: From Wikipedia:
In February 2008 the Boston Globe reported that Commonwealth Care covered 169,000 people and had a projected cost of $618 million for the fiscal year. By June 2011 enrollment is projected to grow to 342,000 people at an annual expense of $1.35 billion. The original projections were for the program to ultimately cover approximately 215,000 people at a cost of $725 million.
In March 2008 (a scant 2 years into the program) the Boston Globe reported that some “safety-net” hospitals serving low-income individuals in urban areas were facing budget shortfalls due to the combination of reduced “free-care” payments from the state and low enrollment
Insurance For H-4 Visa Holder In Massachusetts?
Question by Mazda | Posted in Insurance
I am on H1b visa here in US and my spouse is with me on H-4. My employer doesn't give us any health insurance. We are in Massachusetts which requires us to have health insurance. I have SSN but my wife doesn't have one instead she has ITIN (individual tax identification number). So I need to buy health insurance for both of us. Do you have any information or personal experience about or with Massachusetts health insurance companies ? Which of them gives my wife coverage under my insurance policy?
Answer: Most of those visa holders, get coverage through their employer.
Health Connector is the official state broker for health insurance. If they're telling you she can't be covered, she can't be covered - unless you can talk your employer into adding the both of you on.
Mandatory Health Insurance -- Works Like This, Yes?
Question by Spock (rhp) | Posted in Other - Politics & Government
Today's IBD has a reference to an article that recently appeared in the WSJ reporting the actual experience of one Massachusetts health insurance company [Harvard-Pilgrim] with the "you must buy health insurance" plan of that state for their fiscal year ended 3/31/09.
According to the articles, 40% of the company's new policy holders during that year stayed with the company for less than five months. During this period, these short-term policy holders ran up average monthly
Answer: What has the government ever run that didn't fail miserably like Social security etc. They will rob this policy also and run it into bankruptcy along with the entire country.
Does The Massachusetts Health Care Plan Provide A Disturbing Preview Of Obamacare?
Question by J P | Posted in Government
The Massachusetts plan is strikingly similar to Obamacare, including the individual mandate and health care insurance "exchanges." Here's what's happening in Massachusetts:
A new survey released yesterday by the Massachusetts Medical Society reveals that fewer than half of the state's primary care practices are accepting new patients, down from 70% in 2007, before former Governor Mitt Romney's health-care plan came online. The average wait time for a routine checkup with
Answer: It is. I used to live in the UK, and that is exactly how it goes. There simply is no incentive for young people or already certified general doctors to accept patients.
In the UK, because everything was "free", over 52% of the people who went to the hospital could have stayed home and took care of themselves, but since it's all "free", hey, why not go to the hospital? Doesn't cost me anything.
There was a girl there who was 19 who needed a pamp smear. She was told she wasn't old enough, so she came back at 23. Still not old enough. When she was 25, she got the test and by then had full blown cervical cancer and died.
Why Would Obama Want To Recreate The Failures Of Massachusetts State Health Care Plan On A National Level?
Question by MichelleMalkin | Posted in Elections
When Massachusetts passed its pioneering health care reforms in 2006, critics warned that they would result in a slow but steady spiral downward toward a government-run health care system. Three years later, those predictions appear to be coming true:
•Although the state has reduced the number of residents without health insurance, 200,000 people remain uninsured. Moreover, the increase in the number of insured is primarily due to the state's generous subsidies, not the celebrated
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So the mandate that requires uninsured people to buy private insurance, which is at the heart of the Supreme Court challenge, would cover only 16 million people, a mere 5 percent of the population. He also refers to the Massachusetts mandate as the
If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear out its most controversial pieces, such as the individual mandate and requirements that employers provide insurance or face fines. You have exceeded your word limit by words.
Restraining health care spending will make room for other priorities, such as education, that address young people's needs more directly. Yet this brings up a second critical trade-off, between promoting quality — which often means paying for private
By Jay MacDonald A health insurance agent or broker can save you time and money, whether you're an individual seeking coverage or a business owner shopping for the best medical plan for your employees. Licensed health insurance agents and brokers,
Governor Deval Patrick said Tuesday he is confident that health care cost increases can be slowed to no more than the annual growth of the Massachusetts economy without harming the hospitals and doctors that make up the state's dominant industry.
Restraining health care spending will make room for other priorities, such as education, that address young people's needs more directly. Yet this brings up a second critical trade-off, between promoting quality — which often means paying for private
By Jay MacDonald A health insurance agent or broker can save you time and money, whether you're an individual seeking coverage or a business owner shopping for the best medical plan for your employees. Licensed health insurance agents and brokers,
Governor Deval Patrick said Tuesday he is confident that health care cost increases can be slowed to no more than the annual growth of the Massachusetts economy without harming the hospitals and doctors that make up the state's dominant industry.