Here’s an odd bit of fiscal news for you. New Hampshire is not known for its affordable access to health care, though that has been improving in recent years thanks to Republicans in the legislature and the corner office. I know something happened ot the Republican State Senate as summer approached, and they went sideways, but generally, a wide range of issues has improved.
Health care in NH has generally gotten better, and if it continues, it will become more accessible and increasingly affordable, especially compared to some of our neighbors. They are all in the blue state doom loop. From hiding costs with taxpayer subsidies to abandoning that scheme because wealthy and job creators take their productivity to other states (like New Hampshire).
The socialists can’t force them to stay, so rather than running out of other people’s money, other people’s money is running out on them. Jilted at the burgeoning welfare state altar. Left to explain why they can’t keep promises, we warned you they could never keep; with the caveat that while many of them knew this and didn’t care, there are a few brethren of the church of pillage others to pay for your partisan progressive priorities who were so enamored of the lie they truly never suspected.
Given the trajectory of Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts, New Hampshire will likely be the only sane, affordable place left in New England to run a business or raise a family, assuming the blue-state migrants don’t poison the water hole.
What was that you said about babies? It’s cheaper to give birth in the Granite State than in Vermont or New York.
VT vaginal births: $20,466 in network, $26,824 out. C-sections: in network $29,834, out $38,295.
New York vaginal births: in network $22,894, out $36,892. C-sections: $26,890 in network, out $49,261 .
New Hampshire vaginal births: $17,204 in network, $27,681 out. C-sections: $22,012 in, $34,868 out.
The most expensive state for an out-of-network C-section is Nevada, at $78,893. The cheapest in-state vaginal birth is Alabama with $10,275.
New Hampshire is also cheaper than Massachusetts, Rhode Island*, Connecticut, and New Jersey. You’d have to commute to Pennsylvania to get a better in-network price than in New Hampshire, but only in-network. Out-of-network in PA is still more.
*An in-network C-section is cheaper in RI.
This is, of course, academic. The Public Health Industrial complex triad of hospitals, insurance companies, and Big Pharma is what makes medicine so expensive. They line-item you to death, even in the Primary Care office, which is often forced to affiliate with a local cartel member. Care is just another word for profit centers that treat symptoms rather than cure illness.
The cartels work hard to keep that arrangement intact, working the upper chambers of state legislatures, which are smaller and more prone to worrying about funding their next campaign than about what is best for price, access, and their constituents.
House Republicans in New Hampshire have many great ideas to increase access, lower costs, and ensure health freedom. Senate Republicans need more convincing than seems reasonable, but at the end of the day, even the worst of them is better than any Democrat.
Pay attention to State Senate primaries if you’ve got one. It could mean lower medical bills in the future and not just for births.
