The efforts in Massachusetts mandating that its citizens have health insurance show that simply expanding the availability of insurance does not contain costs. If anything the evidence from its brief existence suggests the opposite. Over the past year, the state has had to raise taxes and fees to keep the new program afloat, and government and industry officials believe the program will not survive over the next five to ten years if major actions are not taken to slow the state's health care spending.Business genius Romney enacted the health care and then bailed out, leaving the state with a live hand grenade that has since blown up. His claims during the Republican primaries have all been proven to be absolute nonsense just like Mr. Red Pill / Blue Pill Obama's are.
I read somewhere that a recent head-to-head matchup for 2012 of Romney vs. Obama had them tied, but that's understandable. I suspect that a matchup between firing squad and lethal injection would end up the same way.
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So, now I have a mental image of a public-service announcement about how bad political careers are only ended when people stop voting for the guy. It ends with a face-shot of an unhappy-looking Smokey Bear, growling ominously, "Only YOU can prevent these guys from getting elected."
Amen, Tim!
The claims about CommonwealthCare being like Obama care are false. So are the claims of it failing. It's supported by Mass anti-taxation groups, because it has been effective at lowering costs.
http://www.cltg.org/cltg/barbara/2006/06-02-19_Healthcare_Reform.htm
http://www.masstaxpayers.org/publications
Massachusetts Health Reform: The Myth of Uncontrollable Costs
Despite a public perception that the state's landmark health care reform law has turned out to be unaffordable, a new analysis by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation finds that the cost to taxpayers of achieving near universal coverage has been relatively modest and well within initial projections of how much the state would have to spend to implement reform,
It's also been very popular.
"It found that public support for the state's healthcare initiative is holding strong. Overall, about 70 percent of those surveyed in 2006 through 2008 said they back the first-of-its-kind law."
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