
Let’s NOT use Massachusett’s Ill-Conceived Health Care Coverage Mandate As a Model
State Senate President Don Perata has introduced (and I know this will shock you) a health care proposal that would create a massive new government healthcare bureaucracy in California.
He uses some of the modeling and rhetoric of the plan enacted in Massachusetts. I have news for everyone — that plan is bad news.
We need an action plan that moves government away from the healthcare arena. It is a vibrant economy with more jobs that pay more money that will allow Californians to purchase health insurance. Don Perata is basically offering up a welfare plan, that is a total left-wing proposal. I guess Perata is a shrewd negotiator, starting out with a radical, liberal concept like this. It’s scary.
Here’s what the CATO Institute has to say in a preamble to an insightful study they did on the Massachusetts plan:
Massachusetts has enacted one of the most far-reaching state health insurance reform packages in recent decades.… Read More