While the health care reform bill (or bills? reconciliation? who knows?) get their last vetting, let's look at two "experiments" in government run health care and see how that's working:
First, the State of Tennessee, which expanded Medicaid to nearly 1/4 of its residents, adding 500,000 people to Medicaid. This is a cornerstone of Obamacare, which would add about half of the nation's currently uninsured--for a helfty price tag. The results? Sky-rocketing costs and decline in results, i.e. poorer health for those enrolled.
Next, the state of Massachusetts, where the state is now running a universal health care program. Costs again are skyrocketing, and health care is already 47 million dollars OVER budget for 2010! Patients are being threatened with capitation of health services, despite paying the highest health insurance premiums in the nation.
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