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If you add millions more patients, but no more doctors, even a high school graduate would know that you would get rationing.
You would think someone with the brain power of a Mitt Romney would have understood that, but I would be wrong.
Of course, in Massachusetts you also have the game players--they get a plan, have a procedure, then stop paying for the plan. Actually, those are the smart ones--they are smarter than government.
Want to see the "success" of the Romney Plan?
"Some 97% of Massachusetts citizens have health insurance, the highest percentage in the country. The state also has the highest concentration of doctors in the country. Sounds ideal. But "less publicized," Pho says, "are the unintended consequences that the influx of half a million newly insured patients has had on an unprepared primary care system."
The Massachusetts Medical Society reports that the time for a new patient looking for a primary care doctor now ranges from 36 to 50 days. Half of all internal medicine physicians have closed their doors to new patients.
When Massachusetts mandated health insurance for every citizen, visits to the state's emergency rooms jumped 7% in two years because many people did not have access to a primary care physician. This increases costs, since emergency room care can be up to 10 times more expensive than an office visit for the same condition."
Higher costs, longer waits, rationing of care. Sadly, Obama is trying to use the Romney Plan as the basis for his. It will be a bigger disaster.
Did I mention the Romney Plan is also bankrupting the State?
If Mitt Romney has been elected president, today we would be fighting RomneyCare instead of ObamaCare.
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You would think someone with the brain power of a Mitt Romney would have understood that, but I would be wrong.
Of course, in Massachusetts you also have the game players--they get a plan, have a procedure, then stop paying for the plan. Actually, those are the smart ones--they are smarter than government.
Want to see the "success" of the Romney Plan?
"Some 97% of Massachusetts citizens have health insurance, the highest percentage in the country. The state also has the highest concentration of doctors in the country. Sounds ideal. But "less publicized," Pho says, "are the unintended consequences that the influx of half a million newly insured patients has had on an unprepared primary care system."
The Massachusetts Medical Society reports that the time for a new patient looking for a primary care doctor now ranges from 36 to 50 days. Half of all internal medicine physicians have closed their doors to new patients.
When Massachusetts mandated health insurance for every citizen, visits to the state's emergency rooms jumped 7% in two years because many people did not have access to a primary care physician. This increases costs, since emergency room care can be up to 10 times more expensive than an office visit for the same condition."
Higher costs, longer waits, rationing of care. Sadly, Obama is trying to use the Romney Plan as the basis for his. It will be a bigger disaster.
Did I mention the Romney Plan is also bankrupting the State?
If Mitt Romney has been elected president, today we would be fighting RomneyCare instead of ObamaCare.
More...