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Romney Care: Pros and Cons
The RomneyCare program has both its advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
Advantages include the fact that 63% of Massachusetts residents support the Romneycare Massachusetts health care insurance reform law which mandates that all citizens of Massachusetts obtain minimal government health-care insurance coverage. More than half of the residents of Massachusetts have been pleased with the results of the law according to a survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (The Economist, 2011). This is partly due to the political climate which has offered high benefits.
The results of Romneycare show, too, that in 2004, health spending per person, was $6,683, which was higher than the average of all states. True that insurance coverage has long been higher even before Romney Care was introduced. Even at the time of the reform, the number of uninsured in MA was only 6.4% compared with a national 15.8%, but the law succeeded in expanding health coverage...
Romney and under the auspices of his successor, Deval Patrick. The law succeeded in encouraging more people to sign up for health insurance. In fact, in 2010 only 1.9% of residents lacked health insurance. These are the clear advantages of the program.
On the other hand, the disadvantages are many.
Disadvantages
Average monthly premiums increased by 12% between 2006 and 2008, and even though a higher percentage of firms than before are now offering health insurance, they have shifted prices for their employees. Part of the problem is that low reimbursement rates for MassHealth (the program for the poor) has caused some hospitals to shift more costs onto the privately insured, whilst hospitals are also using their influence to push up prices. Moreover, possession of health insurance does not mean access to doctor as residents of MA have discovered. Approximately, 20% of working age adults (this is one in five) have difficulty finding a doctor. So possessing health coverage, in other words, does not indicate receiving quality medical treatment or, in fact, any treatment altogether.
The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, otherwise known as the Health Connector, is the individual who was placed in…
The Economist. (Jun 23rd 2011 ) Mass observation. Health care.
http://www.economist.com/node/18867268
Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (April 12, 2006) ."CHAPTER 58 of the Acts of 2006, AN ACT PROVIDING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, QUALITY, ACCOUNTABLE HEALTH CARE.." The General Court of Massachusetts.
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