Surprise Surprise!
Apparently the universal health coverage in Massachusetts in costing more than predicted.
The subsidized insurance program at the heart of the state’s healthcare initiative is expected to roughly double in size and expense over the next three years - an unexpected level of growth that could cost state taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars or force the state to scale back its ambitions.
State projections obtained by the Globe show the program reaching 342,000 people and $1.35 billion in annual expenses by June 2011. Those figures would far outstrip the original plans for the Commonwealth Care program . . .
The state has asked the federal government to shoulder roughly half of the program’s cost from 2009 through 2011, but there is no guarantee of that funding.
“The state alone cannot support that kind of spending increase,” said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-funded budget watchdog group.
The best part is that the state bureaucrats are trying to find a way to get the Federal government to pay for their predictable miscalculation. Apparently I should pay for free health care for the citizens of Massachusetts. Sigh. It gets old people wanting to use the state’s coercion to force me to subsidize their unattainable attempt at Utopia. In high school their should be a mandatory course on learning about how incompetent the state is just so our children can learn how unwise it is to use the state as the solution for any thing. It could come between a Biology course, forcing scientific value on our children, and a course on Intelligent design, forcing religious values on our children.
If we just teach our children the values of distrust and contempt for the state, this country would be so much better. It would extra super duper better.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
We already teach children to distrust the magical ideas of religion through Santa Claus and the easter bunny. If only there were something like that for the state.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I thought that was socialism.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
While I don’t disagree with your idea on educating our children, I find it ironic that you want schools to teach children to distrust the state while the vast majority of children attend state run schools.
And silly Massachusetts, I’m not paying for your failed experiment.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Come to think of it, its rather alarming to think how many people go through public education and fail to realize the incompetence of the state.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
The Feds need to “Just Say No”.
BTW, can you imagine how much it will cost if they try to roll this out nationally as Obama and Clinton want to do? People complain about the national debt now, just you wait.