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Fla. looks to Mass. for health care advice
NATION AND THE WORLD
Fla. looks to Mass. for health care advice
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1. Yes the number on insured went down but no one except the Kool Aid drinkers thinks it went down 66%. We know the actual number; it was around 400,000. It went down because those 400,000 people got free insurance. The real mystery here in Massachusetts why the remaining 300,000 -- most of whom are entitled to free insurance to -- don't take it
2. Premiums did not drop except for approximately 40,000 people out of 6,500,000 people in Massachusetts. And their premiums only dropped for one year. We have the highest premiums in the world (but very good healthcare too) and the premiums have almost doubled -- even for the 40,000 who got the one-year reprieve -- since RomneyCare was begun
3. Only about 30,000 people in Massachusetts out of 6,500,000 buy insurance on our exchange. Don't waste your money on it