The costs were rising (like flesh-eating ghouls in Night of The Living Dead), and were voraciously eating into the state budget at an alarming rate.
SOLUTION: Mass pulled some 150,000 citizens out of the plan. So much for "universal health care."
"One of the reasons so many people supported the reform effort in Massachusetts is that they were told universal coverage would lead to lower costs."That explains it all. Including how and why people like Kerry, Fat Teddy and Bawney Fwank keep getting elected -- The people of Mass are certified morons.
Its a known fact that 'Politicians' have been lying to 'the people' since they first landed at Plymouth Rock and made the first treaty with the Indians. So anyone who believes them now deserves what they get.
But don't forget Obama’s motivating words, ‘ We must do something’, ‘Doing nothing is NOT an option’, ‘Now is the time’, and ‘It will cost more to do nothing’.
Feeling better yet? Like the Economic Recovery jobs bill, he is NOT promising it will make anything better. No, No, No, He is promising that it will make things worse, but not as worse as if we didn't pass it.
He learned the politics of crisis from that last guy ('we must pre-empt Mushroom clouds over American Cities', 'we must pass TARP immediately to avoid a depression' ) , except uses it 10 times more. Oh yes, “If you are opposed to democrat reform, opposed to the democrat doomsday sales pitch, you are a fear monger. Or a hate monger. ” Fear you say? My favorite democrat argument is the public plan is needed for all those people who lost their insurance because they didnt get a job promised to them by democrats passing the 700B on-our-credit-card Economic Recovery stimulus package.
Can we 'opt-out' of all the debt that democrats are running up?