Mass. Panel sets rate plan for health coverage

The Boston Globe reports:

Lower-income uninsured residents would have to pay up to 6.6 percent of their income to buy health coverage under a state panel's recommendation, an amount that is more than is typically paid by higher-income people with employer-provided insurance.


The plan, which state regulators will vote on today, calls for lower-income, single adults to pay $10 to $100 a month toward their health insurance, or between 1 percent and 4.5 percent of their income, depending on their annual earnings. Lower-income couples would pay $20 to $200 a month, or between 1.5 percent and 6.6 percent of their income. Children will be covered under the state-federal Medicaid program.

The joys of Massachusetts socialism.