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Mass Success, Pt.4 -- What’s it all about?

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This is a little puzzling, seeing as how this method is usually one of the only means of getting access to medical care available to many of these low-income residents who don’t have health insurance and without such a program as this. This could be caused by the long delays or, perhaps, some of those residents need some guidance on how to appropriate health insurance. The director of the Massachusetts’ authority that oversees the health plan is Jon Kingsdale. He is not convinced that the longer waits and the emergency room mis-use is any worse in his state than it is in the other states. He did explain that they found it easier to just enroll these with health insurance than it would be to “break their longstanding links to local hospitals”. He did concede “We’ve clearly identified that as behavior that has to be changed.”

This new Massachusetts plan went into law and took effect last year. This is the grandest effort of any state to test the viability for universal coverage. It is, basically, a laboratory. It is a test of many of the Commonwealth Fund principles, currently being touted by the Democratic candidates on the troubled health insurance/care issue. This state may serve as a model for the federal level, if successful and with a Democratic Executive in the White House. The basic differences between will be almost negligible by the time anything survives the grueling legislative process of the federal Congress. Health insurance will be looked on as a basic right in a developed nation (as it already is in almost all developed countries). Nearly everyone will have health insurance/care, but there will always be a small number of exemptions by choice.

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