Re:its about time (Score 1)

...with a dire health service, having the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world....

It's more than just infant mortailty rates though, IMHO. It's about the fact that quite often we're paying for it anyway via the form of unscheduled trips by the uninsured to the emergency room as a last-ditch effort for care long after the point where a simple trip to the doctor's would take care of things.

I wish I could recall the fees Ahhhhnold was just quoting that California citizens *each* pay for caring for the uninsured annually. I think it was $1,100 or $1,200/yr PER resident. Youch.

That's a sizable number by most anyone's estimation. Now though, the question for Mass. residents becomes what do individuals there do to get health insurance quotes? I've heard quite a bit of radio coverage (mainly NPR) of late about the ads running during Red Sox games for educating their target audience (something like 57% are males between 20 & 40) about this plan.