Even with Massachusetts leading National healthcare reform in 2007, plus the major advancements of the [[wp:Affordable Care Act|Affordable Care Act]] in 2010, healthcare is (still) so broken in the US. (I'm on a mission to fix it.) We spend more than anybody else on the planet, yet have higher mortality rates, and lack universal healthcarehealth care.
A couple points made in this article with regard to your personal health care data:
Plan comparison [https://ma.checkbookhealth.org/hie/ma/2024/index.cfm? https://ma.checkbookhealth.org/hie/ma/2024/]
healthcare plans are offered in "metallic" tiers like you're somehow winning medals in the Olympics instead of paying the world's highest costs for healthcarehealth care. The system is just another level of indirection. Personally, I think the lowest level of payout ('bronze') should start out at 80%, with additional tiers of 85, 90, and 95 - or even 100%. I mean why is it called 'platinum', better than 'gold', and only pays out 90%? Sounds like these plans are "platinum colored" rather than genuine platinum.
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