Universal coverage? First, look at the disaster in Massachusetts

To much fanfare from both right and left in 2006, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to require all residents to buy health insurance. A new state health insurance clearinghouse was created, with taxpayers subsidizing those who couldn’t afford to buy coverage. (Snip) 43 mandatory benefits — including those that many people did not want or need, such as invitro fertilization — raised the costs of coverage for Massachusetts residents by as much as 56 percent

[how many examples of abject failure must be created before folks get the message that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and government involvement in health care will inevitably ruin it to the degree we allow it in]

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