[C19fan]

RomneyCare is just a stepping stone to single-payer. Either Romney was so stupid he did not realize this was going to happen or Romney likes single-payer and saw this as the stepping stone.

[RexBeach]

This law was not well researched before being enacted. But then, that happens in MA often - especially when it comes to insurance - any type of insurance.

Why do Bay State voters keep returning so many boobs to the legislature? Idiots. They deserve what they get.

[svcw]

Of course Romney knew what would happen, he is a liberal. He has praised his plan. Why anyone would be surprised that this disaster in MA is going on, surprises me.
Romney has got to go.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Romney would appear to have fallen victim to Beltway Republican thinking. “We have to do SOMETHING! We can’t let them say we are the Party of No”.

Party of No works just fine where I am concerned.

[Need4Truth]

"Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Two."

I worked in engineering a long time and I never heard this. Not only that, I don't get it.

[Pollster1]

Unfortunately, it hasn't quite worked out that way . . . cheap people turned out to almost all need subsidies . . . game the system by buying insurance, getting a bunch of expensive procedures, and then dropping the insurance again . . . . insurance costs were still marching briskly upward, rates were among the highest in the country, and the system was putting heavy pressure on a budget that was already strained

Unintended consequences? How surprising and unexpected!

[Pessimist]

So in other words, everything is going according to the plan.

Those dastardly insurere are losing their shirts. No doubt that warms the hearts of socialists state wide.

And of course the end game will be single payer.

[LonePalm]

If a government program can be gamed to a person's advantage, it will be.

Does anyone think that 0bamacare will be different?

Damn unintended consequences.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Brilliant]

Its hard to believe it worked out this way considering the earlier predictions were based on a scientific statistical study. Everyone know that statistics are never wrong.

[Will not Live for another Man]

Sounds to me like problem is government price fixing... Could someone remind me again about the last time wage and price controls created a desirable effect?

[dfwgator]

Thanks, Mitt.

[Leisler]

Exclusive prep schools, Stanford, Harvard law and MBA.

So, stupid is ruled out.

[Lancey Howard]

Massachusetts Insurers Post Big Losses

"But after a few years, insurance costs were still marching briskly upward, rates were among the highest in the country, and the system was putting heavy pressure on a budget that was already strained to the limit by the recession."

[fightinJAG]

Why does this remind me of back to the future already?