Re: Mass health care
joanna wrote:
I have not exactly pored over the details, but it looks to me like the Massachussetts plan is a give away to medical insurance companies.
- It forces small companies to buy coverage for their employees — that might be the only plus.
- It offers the rich a pre-tax deduction for health care expenses
- It criminalizes those poor people who cannot choose insurance premiums over food
In short, if I’m reading it right, it’s a near complete obscenity.
Hear Steffie Woolhandler describe it as a “hoax”: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060406.