You should be thankful for MassCare as an example of how even with good intentions government run healthcare is a failure. Without these types of experiments conducted at the state level, conservatives would never be in a postion to point out the real world failures of the type of program Obama proposes.
You make a decent point, but along the same lines, we can point to running a state as an “experiment” at running the country. Thus, both MittCare and Romney himself have proven failures at the state level. Despite that, we got Obamacare. Let’s learn at least one of the two offerred lessons and jetison Romney.
Not really true. Socialism is so well understood experimentally there was no excuse for trying it here in any state. Therefore, only two causations remain possible. Either the architects of Romneycare didn’t know that what they were doing had already been proven a failure, or they didn’t care. Ignorance or malice. Tough choice.