Say, Massachusetts...

..how’s that whole universal health care thing working for ya?

"Standing alone, expanded insurance coverage means expanding access to health care and that will likely increase health spending overall. 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."

That from David Koitz of the nonpartisan fiscal watchdog group the Concord Coalition.

But, it wasn't supposed to be this way, was it? Our basic human nature dictates that our favorite word is "free" and free anything must be a good thing, particularly when it involves a johnny-come-lately basic human right in health care. But the same bill of goods the wizards at the unicorn factory have failed to deliver on at the state level is, though temporarily stalled in Congressional committee, being prepped to go nation-wide.

Koitz suggests that Massachusetts' universal health care program will not survive unless "major action" is taken, so in a back-handed manner, there is still hope for the citizens of the Bay State.

H/T: KT