{"id":20403,"date":"2013-09-12T20:13:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T00:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20403"},"modified":"2013-09-12T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T00:13:25","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20403","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/blog\/health-care\/2013\/09\/state-to-pay-dell-44m-to-make.html?ana=twt&amp;page=all\">Boston Business Journal<\/a> posted an article today about one aspect of bringing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a> to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.3,-71.8&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=42.3,-71.8 (Massachusetts)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Massachusetts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>More than 200,000 in Massachusetts could actually lose health care coverage in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Switch-Elmore-Leonard\/dp\/0440208319%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0440208319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"amazon\">the switch<\/a> to ObamaCare next year. To prevent that, state officials are pulling out all the stops to make sure members of state-subsidized <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health policy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">health plans<\/a>, established under Massachusetts&#8217; own health care reform, don\u2019t lose coverage in the shift.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to prevent those state residents from losing their health care coverage, the state is launching a heavy-duty <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"State school\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">public education<\/a> campaign, including 230,000 outgoing phone calls urging those currently covered under <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Massachusetts health care reform\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mahealthconnector.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Massachusetts health care<\/a> plans to switch to ObamaCare. The new ObamaCare plans are called ConnectorCare plans<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The price tag for all those phone calls \u2013 just one part of the outreach effort \u2013 is $4.4 million, which will be paid to vendor <a href=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/adview?ai=BUZCC9ksyUovdOObW0AG3goBIiYTD4AMAAAAQASAAOABYiZuBz2ZgyYaAgISk7A-CARdjYS1wdWItOTczNjA5MjYwNDY3NzUxNrIBE3d3dy5iaXpqb3VybmFscy5jb226AQlnZnBfaW1hZ2XIAQnaAW5odHRwOi8vd3d3LmJpempvdXJuYWxzLmNvbS9ib3N0b24vYmxvZy9oZWFsdGgtY2FyZS8yMDEzLzA5L3N0YXRlLXRvLXBheS1kZWxsLTQ0bS10by1tYWtlLmh0bWw_YW5hPXR3dCZwYWdlPWFsbMACAuACAOoCHDQ2MzUvYnpqLmJvc3Rvbi9hcnRpY2xlX3BhZ2X4AoHSHpAD4AOYA-ADqAMB0ASQTuAEAaAGIA&amp;sigh=T4LrMX-Gp8Q&amp;adurl=http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/imgad\/1804527\/hartfordbostoninterstitial.html?t=10&amp;cT=http%3A\/\/www.bizjournals.comhttp%3A\/\/adclick.g.doubleclick.net\/aclk%25253Fsa%25253DL%252526ai%25253DBUZCC9ksyUovdOObW0AG3goBIiYTD4AMAAAAQASAAOABYiZuBz2ZgyYaAgISk7A-CARdjYS1wdWItOTczNjA5MjYwNDY3NzUxNrIBE3d3dy5iaXpqb3VybmFscy5jb226AQlnZnBfaW1hZ2XIAQnaAW5odHRwOi8vd3d3LmJpempvdXJuYWxzLmNvbS9ib3N0b24vYmxvZy9oZWFsdGgtY2FyZS8yMDEzLzA5L3N0YXRlLXRvLXBheS1kZWxsLTQ0bS10by1tYWtlLmh0bWw_YW5hPXR3dCZwYWdlPWFsbMACAuACAOoCHDQ2MzUvYnpqLmJvc3Rvbi9hcnRpY2xlX3BhZ2X4AoHSHpAD4AOYA-ADqAMB0ASQTuAEAaAGIA%252526num%25253D0%252526sig%25253DAOD64_3q2TLc5i6JvQ42UxiBZKX8ggbcCg%252526client%25253Dca-pub-9736092604677516%252526adurl%25253D&amp;l=http%3A\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/profiles\/company\/us\/tx\/plano\/dell_services\/3315665\">Dell Services<\/a>, the services arm of Dell Inc. (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Nasdaq: DELL<\/a>). But there are strings attached. The contract includes penalties for not converting the majority of eligible Commonwealth Care members by Jan. 1, 2014. There will also be a per-member penalty if Dell fails to reach benchmarks by the end of the open enrollment period on March 31, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It says something about the appeal of ObamaCare that Massachusetts has to pay $4.4 million to get people to enroll in it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=ffd57162-5889-44e3-b3c3-0a28bf316272\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Business Journal posted an article today about one aspect of bringing ObamaCare to Massachusetts. The article reports: More than 200,000 in Massachusetts could actually lose health care coverage in the switch to ObamaCare next year. To prevent that, state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6284,6283,6285,142,1205,7,134,285],"class_list":["post-20403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-business-journal","tag-dell","tag-health-policy","tag-massachusetts","tag-massachusetts-health-care-reform","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20406,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403\/revisions\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}