Save Medicare for Seniors Before 'MA Medicare-for-All'

Any way you look at it, a Vermont or Canadian-style health care plan which makes the government perform as the sole insurer would drastically diminish Massachusetts health care quality, patient choice, the number of doctors practicing, and would lead to private sector layoffs, all in the weakest state and national economy since 1929.

No matter how many voters north of the border may like may like it, "Eldridge Care" makes Obama Care look real conservative and incremental.

Why does State Sen. Jamie Eldridge repeatedly travel outside his district to try and sell a "MA Medicare-4-All Plan" when policy makers should be doing everything they can to save the near bankrupt Medicare for Seniors, and strengthen the Health Connector for small businesses and individuals?

The Eldridge Bill is a Massachusetts jobs killer. It contains FIVE new state taxes on income, capital gains, payroll, employees and employers. It pools all federal monies for MA Health Care into a single trust fund to be administered by an unelected Board with vast powers over medical decisions. Sound familiar? 

The mandates within the newly created state bureaucracy make the regulations in the President's Health Care Plan look small (and constitutional).

Assuming this Behemoth was allowed to take effect here, (which creates a new, entitlement program), it is logical to conclude that current Medicare and Medicaid recipients would negatively be affected by the massive rationing of health care dollars that undoubtedly would occur by placing all residents into a government run health care plan. 

And what do proponents suggest for the hundreds of newly unemployed residents as a result of adopting a Vermont or Canadian health care model here in Massachusetts?  

LOCAL ITEM: Across our district local aid is down, property taxes are up and home values are falling. Road, bridge and MBTA jobs take 7-10+ years to build. Chapter 70 School Aid relative to the big cities is still not equitable.

Yet, our State Senator this spring has focused almost exclusively on a non-binding, campaign finance resolution for the U.S. Supreme Court, changing the Electoral College to a popular vote, raising taxes, and a health care plan so radical and unworkable it would never pass the Legislature.

It is time to put education and the economy first, not a failed and progressive policy agenda catered exclusively to the Special Interests. Let's speed up MassDOT projects, create new jobs by supporting all small businesses (not Big Oil or Green Boondoggles), and improve schools by eliminating decade's old, unfunded state mandates-cost-shifting expenses on to local taxpayers.

Finally, let's save the Medicare we have for senior citizens (age 65+), before unrealistically giving the financially strapped program to everyone.

 

Dean Cavaretta

Candidate for State Senate

Middlesex & Worcester

www.MomsAndDadsForDean.com