Thursday July 22, 2010
MASS Shows Federal Reform Headed For Trouble
If Massachusetts is a harbinger - and all evidence indicates it is - the new federal health overhaul legislation is headed for serious trouble.
Massachusetts and the federal government built their reform efforts using similar architectural plans - strict regulation of health insurance, mandates on individuals and businesses, expensive new taxpayer-funded subsidies and a major expansion of Medicaid - and both share a central structural flaw in failing to address rising health costs.
See rest of story at www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Columns/2010/July/072210Turner.aspx