Goodman’s Axiom in Massachusetts

I have said it so many times and it has been confirmed so many times, we might as well turn it into an axiom: The left only knows two ways to control health care costs: squeezing the providers and denying people care. This is from the Kaiser Health News:

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked the state legislature to grant his administration broad new authority to “review and reject” excessive rates charged by medical providers in hopes of curbing costs and making health care more affordable, The Boston Globe reports. Under a bill filed Wednesday by Patrick, the rates that “hospitals and other health providers charge insurers would be ‘presumptively disapproved as excessive’ if they increased faster than the level of medical inflation, and they could be rejected after a public hearing.” Insurance premium hikes that exceed 1.5 times medical inflation could also be rejected.

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