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Originally Posted by Freddy
Massachusetts has just begun a mandatory universial health insurance program on January 1, 2007. Everyone in the state is required to get health insurance through their employers or if there is not any offered or they are simply without it the state will sign them up. It is a sliding scale program with those who cannot pay being totally subsidized and then others have their premiums based on income levels.
One of the main reasons this was implimented was MA was spending over $1 billion per year on emergency room visits for the uninsured. This program through premiums and cost savings by sending those uninsured to clinics instead of the ER is by law to pay for itself. Of course, we will have to wait to see the results, but 100,000 of the uninsured have signed up.
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i am sure you understand Mass is one state of 50. having said this the problem they had with emergency rooms, in itself is from mandated law.
this is a problem for all states, but not entirely for reasons you may think.
as you said the results are pending. i do know every other state has representatives in Mass, trying to get there business to move to there states.
