Massachusetts is the costliest place to buy health insurance:
Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country, according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs after passage of a landmark 2006 law that mandated coverage for nearly everyone.
The report by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health care foundation, showed that the average family premium for plans offered by employers in Massachusetts was $13,788 in 2008, 40 percent higher than in 2003.
That's a typical, vapid Boston Globe article I linked to above. It's a well of inaccuracies, obfuscations, and propaganda will make any non-Moron's stomach turn, head shake, and blood boil. How boring is it to read over and over, how the pols blame drug companies, insurers blame doctors, and doctors blame lawyers?
Clearly, the entire enterprise needs to be DE-POLITICIZED. Instead, we get sundry clowns arguing for either tweaking this garbled mess or complicating it further.
Why is healthcare so expensive in Massachusetts?
Well just ask any local Moron and they'll tell you that we have *the best* doctors and hospitals so it's worth it. Seriously.
Oh, and how about these *seniors* arguing against Obama's universal healthcare?
They bleat that if it passes, medicine will be *rationed* with fatal consequences.
But, WTF, that's precisely what Medicare already is!!!
The arguments against what Obama is proposing are plentiful; critics need not get anti-intellectual and emotional. At least they shouldn't if they don't want to have such childish tactics thrown back at them on other issues.
But getting back to Massachusetts....
We also have the 48th most expensive electricity in the nation - at $15.71 per kilowatt hour.
Forbes has ranked Boston 198th (out of 200) in terms of *business costs*, i.e. it's pretty darn expensive to conduct business here.
Restaurants and bars here have terrible fare AND service.
The weather, even beyond the 5 month winter, is grey, wet, and depressing to no end.
And people here are ugly, nasty, vociferous Morons....
Now I very much like this oasis of sanity and civility I've found here on the South Shore...
But still, I've done four years here now in Massachusetts and it's about time for me to go before the parole board. Mrs. C-Nut is currently being headhunted by a medium-sized financial concern. In the doubly rare event that they offer her a substantial raise in a more desirable location, we could be moving. The odds are against it but admittedly, I too am a short-term sucker for *hope*.
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