Winslow Asks for Senior Citizen Vote

Masshealth has not lowered health care costs, said state congressional candidate KC Winslow during an appearance this week at the the Council on Aging  in West Concord. In fact she claims the reverse has occurred. Health care costs have actually gone up.

"...the  problem is in Massachusetts is that since like I said it's [Masshealth] been a big success in terms of making sure people are enrolled, but it  has not been a success at all in terms of cutting costs," said Winslow.

She  said that  costs have actually increased at a rate of 26 percent. Winslow said that the originally Masshealth was designed to  bring costs down and this in fact has not happened adding that the  program "clearly has not been successful in that respect," said Winslow.

The candidate said that even though the planners of Masshealth expected its recipients not use the Emergency Room as their primary health care provider as much as in the past, this practice has not been curtailed and that more education about what the  appropriate services to use might be required.

Winslow asked those who were excited about her campaign to talk to their neighbors and asked audience members to endorse her by putting her campaign
sign on their lawn.

"Hopefully  on November second (election day)... were going to make quite the difference," said Winslow. "There are no independents right now [in Beacon Hill]. It will  be groundbreaking to put an independent on Beacon Hill."

She  said that the election was about changing  how business was conducted at the state capital.

Winslow argued that she thought it would be fitting for Concord being
independent-minded thinkers to send a message to Massachusetts that "we  need
independent leadership."

As  an independent candidate Winslow claimed that she was not accepting
donations from political activists, lobbyists, corporations, or unions.  She
said that her campaign was strictly geared around individuals and  "sending
someone to Beacon Hill that is accountable only to the voters."

She thought that was a really big point because  "unfortunately that's not what
we are getting right now," she added.