Lessons Learned on Health Care
Hmmm. … Let’s connect the dots.
In 2006, Massachusetts passes massive health care legislation that forces every resident to purchase insurance and also creates public option plan.
Results:
Long waiting periods to see a specialist: “Long wait times in Boston may be driven in part by the healthcare reform initiative that was put in place in Massachusetts in 2006.”
A shortage of primary care physicians.
And very mixed results on access and quality of care.
Not to mention, massive tax increases for middle-class families.
In 2010, Massachusetts voters elect Scott Brown, who campaigned as the 41st Senate vote that would block ObamaCare.
RomneyCare = ObamaCare = (Tax Increases + Decline in Quality of Care) = Voter Anger
As for real reform, voters in Massachusetts did not so much vote for free-market heath care reform as against the status quo government-run system.
But given that we’ve tried government-run health care, and it’s failed, it’s time to try the free-market alternative.
This is a lesson many American families are beginning to learn. For more on that, see David Goldhill’s profound article in the Atlantic Monthly, “How American Health Care Killed My Father.”
