Massachusetts Mess Previews ObamaCare Woes--Sally Pipes - NYPOST.com

A look into the healthcare crystal ball.  Higher premiums, limits on care, fewer insurance companies, fewer doctors.   And, with 63% of the folks in the US wanting it repealed, it appears everyone understands this disaster except the Big “O” and the democrats in Congress.

 

Massachusetts Mess Previews ObamaCare Woes--Sally Pipes - NYPOST.com

 

By SALLY PIPES

Last Updated: 12:54 AM, May 25, 2010

Posted: 12:26 AM, May 25, 2010

The future of US medicine under ObamaCare is already on display in Massachusetts. The top four health insurers there just posted first-quarter losses of more than $150 million. Most of them blamed the state's decision to keep premiums at last year's levels for individual and small-business policies, when they'd proposed double-digit hikes to match the soaring costs they've seen under the state's universal-coverage law.

The companies have gone to court to challenge the state's action -- it apparently had no basis for its ruling beyond the political needs of Gov. Deval Patrick. If they win, Bay State health premiums will continue their rapid rise; if they lose, they'll eventually have to stop doing business in Massachusetts -- and the state will be that much closer to a "single payer" system of socialized medicine.