While Governor Patrick explains his proposed massive tax increase program as the need to build transportation infrastructure and add to education expenses, he doesn’t tell the story behind the need for these increases: RomneyCare and the way the Legislature has pumped up the cost of that program over the years.
According to an editorial in The Wall Street Journal last week, health care is expected to account for 41 percent of the state budget in 2013, compared with 23 percent in 2000 and 25 percent in 2006. In real terms Massachusetts’ annual health care budget is 15 percent larger than it was in 2007, according to the Journal, while transportation plunged by 22 percent, public safety by 17 percent, and education by 7 percent.
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I saw that editorial in the Journal, and was not surprised that the Globe never reported the facts outlined therein. I am surprised that they would allow a correspeondent to reveal it. But this is the consequence of health cre "reform", and it will sweep the nation soon as Obamacare gets fully imp;emented in the next two years. Health care costs will rise, as they have in Massachusetts, and the government will pass the cost on to the tax payers.
richmond, as much as I can't afford any more tax hikes, I am looking forward to it happening. It seems we now live in a country that everyone wants everything yet they don't want to pay for it. health care for all, illegals being made citizens, all costly ventures.
A fast way to cut healthcare would be for these free care people to stop using the ER as a clinic. Those visits are super expensive! My copay is $150 so imagine what the state pays. Those with colds should not be there...an added bonus would be that those will real ER ailments wouldn't have 4 hour waits behind Masshealth people there for nonemergent reasons.
Wasn't part of the reason for the Mass the reduction of the emergency rooms being used as a health care venue. Is it not working?
Right, I began blogging about the Globe's deliberate omission as soon as I saw the WSJ article..Meanwhile at least one of the local free weekly newsletters, the Brookline TAB, had the following editorial last week... "Patrick's vision: Fairness and Growth"...Followed by a complete page EXTOLLLING Patrick's proposed tax increases. Of course, NO MENTION at all, of the EXPLODING cost of RomneyCare.