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The Real Problem of Covering the ‘Uninsured’, Pt.12 – Drawing from a credible model.

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The next and pressing phase being tackled now concerns the cost efficiency of the this health insurance/care system. Many strides have been accomplished by providing health insurance to two-thirds of a million people, but there remain some obstacles. To reach bi-partisan approval, it was necessary to allow the free medical care market to raise supply costs to meet the phenomenal increase in demand. So even though overworked, most of the medical care industry in Massachusetts is ‘rolling in dough’. With little-to-no cost regulation for medical care, medical costs are soaring. Perhaps, in order to gain bi-partisan approval, this was considered a ‘necessary evil’. This will now have to be addressed some way because prospects of future sustainability are becoming tenable. For a more complete report on the Massachusetts health insurance project, please refer to the article series’ entitled: “Kudos for Mass”, “Mass Success”, “Mass. Effort in Good Health on 1st Birthday”, “Mass. Health, A Creator Explains”, “Latest Mass. Report” and “Mass. Medical Model Shines”.

Getting back to the contrast between predicting Mr. McCain’s health insurance plan and Mr. Obama’s, where we left off back in article, part 8, we can see that many of Mr. Obama’s proposals have already been tried and proven at the state level. Instead of having to paint the ‘unknown’ in abstract vagaries, we have some tested tangibles with Mr. Obama’s health insurance/care plan. We must bear in mind that much of the tangible substance is drawn from a scale model and, therefore, has innate differences from a full-blown national health insurance/care system. This is expected and is still a good way to design an aircraft.

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