Health care lessons from Massachusetts

[OnePimpTiger]

Mr. President, what's the rush?

Because of President Obama's frantic approach, health care has run off the rails. For the sake of 47 million uninsured Americans, we need to get it back on track.

Health care cannot be handled the same way as the stimulus and cap-and-trade bills. With those, the president stuck to the old style of lawmaking: He threw in every special favor imaginable, ground it up and crammed it through a partisan Democratic Congress. Health care is simply too important to the economy, to employment and to America's families to be larded up and rushed through on an artificial deadline. There's a better way. And the lessons we learned in Massachusetts could help Washington find it.

Read the whole article...makes a lot of sense.

[jlzinck]

Mr. President, what's the rush?



Read the whole article...makes a lot of sense.

This is what I can tell you about health care in Massachusetts.

All people are to have health insurance. Some can be had for as little as $35/mo.

If you don't have it you pay a tax.

It lets you decide on the level of insurance you want.

[OnePimpTiger]

And it's all private, no government-ran option.