Boston, MA-The new universal health care plan that is being pioneered by Massachusetts is off to a good start and is providing critical positive support for the idea of a national type health care plan.
Under the plan in effect in Massachusetts, all residents have to take out some sort of health care, either through an employer plan or they must take out their own privately funded plan.
Failure to take out some sort of health care coverage results in tax penalties for those that refuse to buy some sort of health care coverage.
If an employer refuses to offer some sort of health care coverage to their employers, they also suffer a tax penalty.
It has worked so far to cover about 350,000 members of the state that were previously uninsured, which is more than half of the 650,000 estimated that had not had any sort of medical coverage in the past.
It has been a plan that has been subject to a lot of controversy, both from supporters and critics of the plan. Many people maintain that forcing people to have health care coverage is discrimination and not fair, while others counter that not having health care coverage is the true discrimination.