Wall Street Journal Editorial Criticizes Cost Of Massachusetts Health Insurance Law
According to the editorial, the "ominous news is that only about 18,000 people -- or 5% of the newly insured -- have taken advantage of the 'connector,' which was supposed to be the plan's free-market innovation linking individuals to private insurers." The editorial states that most of the "growth in coverage has instead come via a new state entitlement called Commonwealth Care," adding that, as the "public option gets overwhelmed, budget gaskets are blowing everywhere."
The "main reason people are uninsured is because coverage is too expensive," according to the editorial. The state "could have helped make insurance cheaper by reforming its private market before defaulting to public programs," but "liberals ... have to gussy up the state's model because the extravagant claim that led to its creation -- that health care will be less expensive if everyone is covered -- is being relentlessly discredited," the editorial states. The editorial concludes, "It's the same claim they want to make when they try to pass a similar plan for the whole country in next year's Congress" (Wall Street Journal, 7/29).
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