The Problem with Massachusetts Health Care Reform

Robert Kuttner has a new piece up on the American Prospect that skewers the new Massachusetts health care reform law, which would require all citizens to buy health insurance the way many states require drivers to buy auto insurance. He echoes my sentiments expressed here last week:

"As long as private insurers remain dominant to take their cut -- for profit, marketing, the costs of cherry-picking healthy customers, second-guessing doctors, and spewing paperwork -- the savings of market reform will remain modest. True market-reform would be single-payer coverage like Medicare, which is far more efficient than anything private insurers offer."

For his entire column, click here.