Healthcare: The Massachusetts Experience

From John Goodman:
On the failure to improve access. Massachusetts has already done what ObamaCare promises to do: cut the uninsurance rate in half by enrolling people in Medicaid and subsidizing private insurance. But like ObamaCare, the Massachusetts health plan did nothing to liberate the supply side of the market. As a result, the waiting times to see a new doctor in Boston are twice as long as in any other U.S. city. And there are as many people going to emergency rooms for care in Massachusetts today as there were before the Massachusetts health plan was adopted. Genuine improvement in access to care will require liberating the demand and supply sides of the market in ways that were never discussed at the Summit.

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