Michael Graham raises an excellent question in his article today in the Boston Herald: If ObamaCare is so great, why hasn't Obama talked about how great RomneyCare – a.k.a. ObamaCare 1.0 – has been doing in Massachusetts? As Graham points out, it may have to do with the results:
It's exploding the budget: Our "universal" health insurance scheme is already $47 million over budget for 2010. Romneycare will cost taxpayers more than $900 million next year alone.
It's killing us on costs: Average Massachusetts premiums are the highest in the nation and rising. We also spend 27 percent more on health care services, per capita, than the national average. Those costs, contrary to what we were promised, have been going up faster here than nearly everywhere else.
It's creating bizarre marketplace mutations: In Massachusetts, ObamaCare 1.0 is such a mess our governor is talking about imposing draconian price controls. He's even suggested going to "capitation," a system where doctors get a fixed amount of money per patient - and then that's it. Which means it would become in your doctor's financial interest never to see you again.
Ignoring history seems to be a staple of this administration and that puts their motives into question. If this thing passes – and that remains a big if – it's going to be a disaster on so many different levels. Yet the tone deaf Democrats ignore us all and forge on.
