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By: A Healthy Blog » Close the Tobacco “Candy” Loophole

A Healthy Blog » Close the Tobacco “Candy” Loophole — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:05:22 +0000

[...] Commonwealth Care plans to offer comprehensive smoking cessation benefits. These benefits have been extraordinarily successful in the MassHealth program, and should be replicated in Commonwealth [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46:29 +0000

Smolers will continue to pay the same as non-smokeers, MCC. Instead, the uninsured, healthy, non-smokers are labeled as the “bad guys”, and forced to purchase insurance so that the insurance companies recoup losses spent on the sick smokers.

It’s interesting how Mr. Hussein Obama just recently admitted that the mandate is to make up for the insurance companies having to underwrite everyone. It used to be that those advocating the mandate portrayed every uninsured paerson as visiting the ER on a daily basis and in poor health.

One thing that Mr. Hussein Obama hasn’t factored in: Those of us who are healthy and will be forced to buy insurance will now seek medical care that we don’t really need. For example, I have two bunions on my feet. I have been advised that I will never need surgery. But, as soon as I am forced to pay $4000 per year on surgery, you can bet that I’ll have the $12,000 surgery anyhow, just to stick it to the system!

There. Feel better, mandate advocates?

By: MCC is a tax

MCC is a tax — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:57:42 +0000

Tobacco uses costs 4.3 Billion in health care costs every year but Massachusetts won’t charge a smoker more for their coverage. We all pay for their poor decisions because Mass. won’t allow the insurance companies to charge more for smokers.

This has nothing to do with medical underwriting. This is simple way to add revenue into the system without penalizing anyone for pre-existing conditions.