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This 3-page paper analyzes an editorial in support of President Barack Obama's healthcare plan. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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editorial chosen ran in the Boston Globe during August 2009, and points out that costs for universal coverage may not run as high as previously thought. The editorial points out
the fact that Massachusetts universal coverage is working, and the costs are much less than what are being printed and used to fight against Obamas plan.
The strength of this argument lies on data from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which put the cost of the Massachusetts health care system to the state
taxpayer at $88 million a year (which is less than four-tenths of one percent of the $27 billion state budget). Though the state had had to cut benefits for legal
immigrants, the editorial went on to infer, this was because of the recession, rather than the universal coverage. Furthermore, the editorial express the fact that more than half of those
previously uninsured ended up with coverage through buy-in into their employers plans rather than going through one of the state-subsidized plans. The hidden assumption here is that if it works
in Massachusetts, it should work for the rest of the nation. There is probably a good reason for this assumption. The argument
might seem strong at the outset; after all, enough people are blaming the Massachusetts plan for soaking the taxpayer, but this editorial (relying on the Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation) states that
this is a false assumption. The main weakness of this argument, however, is that its difficult to rally support for a healthcare agenda just based on the Massachusetts healthcare plan.
Even the editorial acknowledges that "the state began the task with a much lower rate of uninsured, 7 percent, compared with the US rate of 17 percent." Its a little
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