Sunday, April 16, 2006

woot wooot! a first step toward NHS?

Massachusetts has set another land mark by mandating Health insurance for all. Is this going to be the start, a trial for some form of nationalized health care?

"... Governor Mitt Romney signed landmark legislation today that through a private, market-based reform will make health insurance available to every resident of Massachusetts within the next three years... more"


It is going to be rather interesting to see how the economics that have proven to be the driving force behind this new piece of legislation...
"...Massachusetts, after a year of legislative dithering over the governor's proposal, agreed on the plan. From an overall economics perspective, it addresses two of the major, and interrelated, problems of care systems: participation and cost-shifting... more"