Massachusetts I want to love/hate/love/hate you
I do want to love the new Massachusetts universal insurance coverage
scheme to require all citizens to have some form of health insurance just like all drivers have to have accident insurance. I really want to adore Gov. Mitt Romney and Senator Ted Kennedy and all the pols who put the legislation together.
But this is what sticks in my craw: Under the guise of a wide, universal umbrella, the plan will be a crazy quilt of insurance plans, insurance premiums and insurance bureaucracies vying to make life more difficult for thousands of families.
Who, after spending an afternoon on hold with her own insurance company will rejoice at adding a whole bunch of other peoples' afternoons to the hold lines?
And will a bare bones insurance policy make a difference to the lower income mother who can barely afford the minimum?
There are no doubt some pluses. Insured people tend to get admitted to hospitals in our country. Uninsured are usually out of luck. But do we want to perpetuate the pluri-paper nonsystem we have today? Will the low-end premium payers get preventive health care? contraception? heart or liver transplants?
The Physicians for a National Health Program, and Health Care Now and Dennis Kucinich are on the side of right on this matter; Massachusetts is on the side of half-right. Or is is half-wrong?
scheme to require all citizens to have some form of health insurance just like all drivers have to have accident insurance. I really want to adore Gov. Mitt Romney and Senator Ted Kennedy and all the pols who put the legislation together.
But this is what sticks in my craw: Under the guise of a wide, universal umbrella, the plan will be a crazy quilt of insurance plans, insurance premiums and insurance bureaucracies vying to make life more difficult for thousands of families.
Who, after spending an afternoon on hold with her own insurance company will rejoice at adding a whole bunch of other peoples' afternoons to the hold lines?
And will a bare bones insurance policy make a difference to the lower income mother who can barely afford the minimum?
There are no doubt some pluses. Insured people tend to get admitted to hospitals in our country. Uninsured are usually out of luck. But do we want to perpetuate the pluri-paper nonsystem we have today? Will the low-end premium payers get preventive health care? contraception? heart or liver transplants?
The Physicians for a National Health Program, and Health Care Now and Dennis Kucinich are on the side of right on this matter; Massachusetts is on the side of half-right. Or is is half-wrong?
posted by Helen Stavrou at 5:13 PM
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