$100K Earners Get State Health Care in Massachusetts

CNS News reports:

A Massachusetts family earning up to $103,000 a year is eligible for state-subsidized health insurance. However, Massachusetts officials won't disclose how many families making that much are also getting state insurance.

The state's health care plan - passed by the legislature and signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006 - is now expected to exceed state budget estimates by $400 million in 2009, or about 85 percent than projected.

Though the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, which administers the program, says a family of eight earning up to $103,716 is eligible for government health care, such information cannot be made public under federal privacy rules, said Joan Fallon, spokeswoman for the agency. She cited the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that shields health records.

Mitt Romney style socialist health care.