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.