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New MA Health Care Reform Legislation Is Political Bouncing Betty

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A unique take on this issue, cross-posted from BMG homepage comment made by: policycenter, 3/7/07

I have been involved in the HC financing business for over 30 years and I know bad legislation when I see it. The MA reform legislation is some of the worst that I have ever seen. Let me tell you a little story that you should pass on to your MA political types.

I am a Vietnam Veteran and the MA legislation reminds me of a anti-personnel mine that the Viet Cong would set for american infantrymen – it was called a Bouncing Betty. When you stepped on this mine it wouldn’t initially go off until you took you foot off of it and then it would bounce up to waist high and explode.

The MA health care reform legislation is the MA politicians political version of the Bouncing Betty mine.

When the politicians that support this half-assed legislation realize that it is unworkable, it will bounce up and blow their political ambition to bits.

3 words underlie this scenario: Fiscal. Stewardship. Lacking.

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  1. that’s a nice recounting of one person’s opinion, but how about backing it up with some factualities & figurinos?

    • and have been posted extensively on BMG.

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      As well as on other blogs, on government and academic sites, more places than anyone could ever count, ie like this post over on Daily Kos

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      We have reached the point where almost everybody is in favor of “universal health insurance.”  The problem is, as they say, in those pesky details. Why even the health insurance industry has a plan for “universal health care”… so long as they can get you and the government to fork the money over to them along with their 31% overhead and profit.

      Various flavors of so-called “Mandatory” or “Mandated” health insurance schemes have, unfortunately, become the most popular sort of plan to get us to universal health care.

      This diary will provide a generic outline, rather than picking on any one specific proposal, of what these sort of plans are composed of.

      And why they inherently don’t work well.

      You can read the full post at DrSteveB’s diary on Daily Kos.

        Then please consider signing up to help adjust the MA health reform rudder onto a more sensible and successful course with MassCare.org. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”  We need your help. Thank you.

      • It is hard to keep all the plans and arguements straight, and I am not steeped in the controversy like you are.  That is why I asked for some info.  If you introduce a topic, you should provide at least one link so that ignorant beginners like me can join the discussion.  I’ll check out the Kos stuff – thanks.

  2. If I were a person in my late 50s, who makes just enough to not qualify for “Commonwealth Care”, I think I’d just not enroll this year.  The penalty on next year’s tax return is only about $250.

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    Then I’d move out of state.

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    What a shame.  Stop this madness.

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    And as I suspected the Early Education and Care bill is coming back, flaws and all.  Another “Bouncing Betty”.

  3. As a concerned citizen, I must voice my adamant disapproval of the “universal health care” proposals we’ve been hearing so much about. I don’t have any gripes with expanding and improving health coverage, per se. It’s the “universal” part that irks me. Providing health care for all would completely undermine the whole idea of health care. If every last one of the 40 million uninsured bozos in this country is going to get access to the vast, virtually unnavigable system of medical care we chosen few now enjoy, then I no longer even want it.

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