HealthSource RI really is the perfect RI government program.

Consider:

Christine Ferguson, executive director of HealthSource RI, suggested the state could look to a tax or fee, as some states that run their own exchanges have done.

But it could also use a combination of direct state aid, advertising revenues, grants and “strategic partnerships” with other agencies and nonprofit groups to help offset costs.

Only in government is it possible to plan to figure out how you’re going to pay for a $25-30 million annual operation after having spent several times that to set it up.

And right on cue comes the voice of the leftist labor unions:

Another advisory board member, Patrick Quinn of the Service Employees International Union, which represents nurses and other healthcare workers, suggested Rhode Island could impose a tax on soda, or assess a fee on not-for-profit health-care providers that pay “outrageous” salaries to their executives.

Of course!  An expensive new government program is the perfect opportunity to impose nanny-state values and redistribute wealth.

No wonder people are giving up on Rhode Island.

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