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Massachusetts Health Care Disaster

By Philip Klein on 1.12.09 @ 10:37AM

The Washington Examiner has an editorial on how the Massachusetts universal health-care program has become "an embarassing flop." It is tremendously over budget, has meant wait times of up to a year to see a physician for a physical, and the individual mandate requirement hasn't even led to universal coverage. What's even more scary is that the broad outlines of the plan are similar to what Obama-Daschle envision at the national level -- the government subsidizes individuals to purchase government-designed coverage from a government-run exchange. So, if Mitt Romney has done one thing for conservatism, it may have been producing a big government health-care system so rotten, that Republicans now have a real life example that they can use during the upcoming health-care battle to demonstrate the flaws of the Obama plan.