Comments on: More health care ‘help’ we can’t afford http://www.markhillman.com/2010/03/10/more-health-care-help-we-cant-afford/ Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Paul Hsieh, MD http://www.markhillman.com/2010/03/10/more-health-care-help-we-cant-afford/#comment-7789 Paul Hsieh, MD Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:29:53 +0000 http://www.markhillman.com/2010/03/11/more-health-care-help-we-cant-afford/#comment-7789 Thank you for pointing out the problem with these "mandatory benefits". This problem will only become worse if the US adopts a Massachusetts-style system of mandatory health insurance. That will create a giant magnet for every special interest group seeking to have their pet benefit included in the mandatory package. MA residents have to purchase all sorts of benefits they neither need nor want, such as in vitro fertilization or chiropractor services. I shudder to think about the lobbying frenzy that will occur if ObamaCare passes, and we have a nation wide system of mandatory insurance. http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2008-fall/mandatory-health-insurance.asp Thank you for pointing out the problem with these “mandatory benefits”.

This problem will only become worse if the US adopts a Massachusetts-style system of mandatory health insurance. That will create a giant magnet for every special interest group seeking to have their pet benefit included in the mandatory package. MA residents have to purchase all sorts of benefits they neither need nor want, such as in vitro fertilization or chiropractor services.

I shudder to think about the lobbying frenzy that will occur if ObamaCare passes, and we have a nation wide system of mandatory insurance.

http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2008-fall/mandatory-health-insurance.asp

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