October 30th’s Boston Globe featured a curious article entitled:
“Study: Mass.’s High Costs Erode Workforce”.
Oh, really? Tell us something new!
An outfit by the name of ‘The Pioneer Institute’ (my, what an innocent-sounding name!) performed this supposed study, and came up with some interesting stats.
One was an assertion that “Massachusetts’ high land and housing costs are driving the state’s workforce away."
The ‘study’ then went into other troubles, such as high unemployment insurance being a millstone for businesses in the Bay State.
Hmmm. We’re getting warm here: at least the insurance industry-at-large is being held to account.
But perhaps the ruddy pioneers at this venerable tax-exempt ‘public policy’ think tank could be commissioned for another 'study' slated for anytime after July 7th, 2007, when the delighted health insurance industry’s proposed individual mandate kicks in.
It is very interesting that the Globe piece missed this biggest proverbial gorilla in the bathtub — the health insurance industry, particularly as it stands poised to assert its newly anointed powers granted by our lapdog legislature — to pounce on our wallets in the form of an egregious insurance mandate.
How nice - the most voracious, yet inexplicably invisible - parasite-middleman in a state with the highest healthcare costs in the nation - and some would say - the world!
But rest assured that we, the people should now feel so utterly protected; warm and cozy under the watchful gaze of yet another ‘free market’ right wing think tank that will imbue our Bay State with magical 'free market' solutions to keep all those talented workers bayside!
I encourage all readers to download the Pioneer Institute’s 2-page pdf document entitled “Agenda for Leadership Recommendations” and lo and behold, the one sentence that shows up dead last in the document reads as follows:
“Determine the reform’ s (‘healthcare' reform) impact on and alter incentives to maximize the private insurance market.
Yeah, and voila! Like magic the Bay State’s healthcare woes will be magically solved by the ‘private insurance market’.
I don’t know about you folks, but there’s no quicker way to get my blood boiling.
Everyone who had a hand in ‘healthcare reform’ — industry insiders, our fair legislators, and folks on the newfound Commonwealth Insurance Connector payroll — knows full well how unpopular this massive powergrab is going to be for the target class. So they bury the naked truth on the last page of the ‘study’. Good job!
Look, we’re not stupid. When we see a study by an entity that includes “Public Policy” in its moniker, we’d better head for the hills — of a state that won’t force us to fill the coffers of the health insurance industry.
An industry, by the way, which has a public favor rating at or below that of collection agencies.
Stay well, stay free - and free of insurance premiums, and feel free to comment as well as join the URL.
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