{"id":8724,"date":"2010-02-14T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care-price-controls-in-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:10:00","slug":"health-care-price-controls-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/health-care-price-controls-in-massachusetts.php","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Price Controls in Massachusetts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, Massachusetts enacted a health insurance \"reform\" that became the blueprint for Obamacare.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/02\/11\/patrick_wants_health_cost_veto\/\">Now<\/a><\/p><blockquote><p>Governor Deval&nbsp;Patrick is seeking sweeping authority to review and reject rates charged by hospitals, physician groups, medical imaging centers, and insurers, in a broad new effort to make health care more affordable, particularly for smaller companies and their workers.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The Governor's desire to reduce costs is understandable, since&nbsp;Massachusetts has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/health\/articles\/2009\/08\/22\/bay_state_health_insurance_premiums_highest_in_country\/\">highest premiums in the nation<\/a>.<\/p><p>But the Governor's approach to reducing expenditure is misguided because it will kill the incentive to supply healthcare services in the Commonwealth.&nbsp;&nbsp;A better approach is to make consumers pay a higher fraction of their health&nbsp;costs, via increased co-pays and deductibles in government insurance and greater taxation of employer-paid premiums.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/db622_6379328854053402400-5295112564893085185?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, Massachusetts enacted a health insurance \"reform\" that became the blueprint for Obamacare.&nbsp; NowGovernor Deval&nbsp;Patrick is seeking sweeping authority to review and reject rates charged by hospitals, physician groups, medical imaging centers, and insurers, in a broad new effort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/health-care-price-controls-in-massachusetts.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}