See: The Ron Paul Platform: Economic Freedom and The Ron Paul Platform: Money
Also see: Massachusetts' Universal Health Care Failing
"Across Mass., wait to see doctors grows; Access to care, insurance law cited for delays" by Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff | September 22, 2008
The wait to see primary care doctors in Massachusetts has grown to as long as 100 days, while the number of practices accepting new patients has dipped in the past four years, with care the scarcest in some rural areas.
Now, as the state's health insurance mandate threatens to make a chronic doctor shortage worse, the Legislature has approved an unprecedented set of financial incentives for young physicians, and other programs to attract primary care doctors.
Access to internists and family practitioners is especially difficult in the western counties and on Cape Cod, doctors said, but Boston, too, is feeling the squeeze.
That's where I live!!!
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PLYMOUTH - Nov. 6, 2006 was a day of celebration at Jordan Hospital as executives, local officials, and politicians attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new $40 million pavilion, part of a $57.5 million renovation project.
The gleaming 91,000-square-foot expansion houses operating rooms, a radiation treatment facility for cancer patients, and sophisticated imaging equipment. A covered entranceway, with valet parking, resembles the drop-off area for a posh hotel.
No wonder health care is so damn expensive in this state!
"Completion of this project marks a significant milestone in Jordan Hospital's evolution from a traditional community hospital to a community medical center for the 21st century," said Alan D. Knight, the hospital's chief executive, during the proceedings.
Knight is gone - he retired a year later - but the bills for the expansion project remain, and Jordan's new chief executive, Peter Holden, is trying to figure out how to pay for it all.
The timing of the project was unfortunate - not long after the ribbon-cutting, admissions dropped precipitously. So far this fiscal year, which ends next Tuesday, admissions are off about 9 percent from last year, and the hospital is on course to post a loss.
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I would just like to state for the record that I OPPOSE HEALTH CARE for PROFIT!!!!
Unless America adopts the models of Canada, France, or England, I don't want national health care in Amerika -- not with price-gouging and looting corporations in charge.
