Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory

Iron Condor writes "Massachusetts is the first state to require its residents to secure health insurance, a plan designed to get as close as practically possible to statewide universal health care. Presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney originally introduced the idea in 2004. Effective July 1, 2007, the law, which uses federal and state tax dollars, is aimed at making health insurance affordable to all residents of the state, including low-income populations. Those who fall below the federal poverty line may be eligible for health care at no cost."

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Re:Socialised Healthcare is the future for the US

[fyngyrz]

Mods need to be more careful on this subject; the poster is espousing a well known side of this issue. It is ridiculous and counter-productive to mod such posts as "flamebait" as we see here; they need to be in the discussion, both so that they are not censored by dimwits, and so that people with opposing views may address them as they see fit in discussion.

Slashdot luminaries have unlimited mod points and brag about it - how about you get after using them in situations like this, where some clown has taken a moderation-shit on the discussion?

While the metamod system may (though I have not seen much evidence of this) address the issue of whacking the moderator for bad modding, it does not revive the stifled discussion or remove the wrong done to the poster. For this reason, I suggest these changes.