Universal Health Mess in Massachusetts

Professor Michael Rozeff questions the new Massachusetts health plan:

House Act No. 4850 begins with a preamble that an "emergency law" is "necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health and convenience." This is a lie. The same sentence says that the "purpose" is not an emergency but to "expand access to health care...increase the affordability of health care products, and enhance accountability of our state’s health system..." This is a second lie. Funneling health care through new state bureaucracies will diminish access, raise costs, and make health care less responsive and accountable to its customers.

Let us not forget that Massachusetts was the first state to enact no-fault auto insurance, to which mandated health care insurance has been likened by Governor Romney: "We insist that everybody who drives a car has insurance. And cars are a lot less expensive than people." One study puts the costs of no-fault auto insurance in Massachusetts at 28 percent above the national average, accompanied by much higher fraud. Another study says that auto insurance "premiums are 19% higher in no-fault states than in personal responsibility states." Romney wants to be President so badly that he has already learned how to ignore salient facts that are widely available at the click of a mouse. More likely he has learned the major political skill of how to lie to oneself so convincingly that it becomes easy to lie to others and forget that one is lying.

It appears that Massachusetts want to be an uncompetitive,anti-business state.We don't see how Mitt Romney is going to sell socialism to Republicans who vote in the primaries.