Massachusetts Begins Rationing Health Care Under Socialist Scheme
Well duh! Anybody with half a brain knows that when you create a socialist health care system you inevitably end up having to ration health care.
The dimwit liberals down in Taxachusetts are already beginning the rationing process. We told you so, Taxachusetts but you didn’t listen as usual. And it’s only going to get worse from here. If I were a doctor or other health care professional, I’d be headed out of Massachusetts…
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. But healthcare leaders fear the new measures will take several years to ease the shortage.
Senate President Therese Murray, who championed the legislation, said that many of the roughly 439,000 people who obtained health coverage under the 2006 insurance law are struggling to find a doctor. “You can take a look at the whole state and you are not going to find a primary care physician anytime soon,” she said in an interview. “It became apparent very quickly that we needed to do something.”
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. Doctors and patient advocates report growing stress for patients trying to get care, and for physicians trying to squeeze them in:
In Williamstown, one doctor said he is working up to 60 hours a week to handle the increased patient load.
In Amherst, a physician began accepting new patients this year, but was so inundated by newly insured people that she had to shut her doors to new patients again six weeks later.
And in Great Barrington, Volunteers in Medicine, a clinic for the uninsured, is for the first time treating insured patients. It has taken weeks for newly insured residents to find doctors who will accept new patients, and months longer to get an appointment.
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One wonders precisely how long it will take for the leftist-ridden residents of Massachusetts to take themselves and their pretty new insurance cards across the borders into neighboring states?
Well don’t hold your breath. My hope is that MA will attract some of NH’s parasites down into it. Hey, MA is giving away “free” health care? So some of them might move down there to feed off of that system.