Legos, Red Sox, and Those Long Waits in Massachusetts

New Republic by Jonathan Cohn | Jul. 8, 2009 (Opinion)

Funny video, but poor correlation between Massachusetts health care reform and increasing wait times.

(Blog Post) The suggestion that the 2006 health reform jacked up the price of health insurance misses one inconvenient fact: Insurance in Massachusetts was among the nation's most expensive long before the law took effect. There are a variety of reasons for that. The higher cost of living in New England has something to do with it. So does the heavy concentration of teaching hospitals. (Research suggests that when you have a lot of high-tech hospitals in an area, it ... Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Jul. 8, 2009

Excellent analysis by Jon Cohn, an honest, articulate and well respected health care blogger. Here he examines the evidence that critics of the Massachusetts health care system offer, finding that the reforms the state enacted in 2006 are probably not responsible for long waiting periods and high costs.

The waiting time issue is a bit more complicated. Intuitively, it makes sense that giving more people insurance would lead many of those people to see the doctor, crowding ... More »

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by Kaizar Campwala - Jul. 8, 2009

Cohn dissects a video comparing health care costs and wait times in Georgia vs. Massachusetts. He's even-handed and thorough in his analysis. Recommended.

I would love to see these discrepancies explained in a more definitive way.

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by Kristin Gorski - Jul. 8, 2009

This blog post focuses specifically on rebutting the argument in a video from the National Review; it does so well, and in doing so, shows holes in many misinformed arguments about how universal health coverage.

Someone needs to do a Lego video rebuttal to the National Review piece.

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