This won’t do anything to deter Democrats. They’ll just point to MA as a reason why we need to have a national single payer system. Because states cannot do this on their own.
Maybe that would make too much sense, though.
I expect the MSM to support Romney leading up to the primaries then savage him as soon as he is nominated. It worked with McCain, so why change a winning strategy?
No reliable data yet exists on how many small companies are dropping coverage, but reports from insurance brokers suggest the pace is picking up this year.
* In April a fight broke out between Gov. Deval Patrick and health insurers in the state. Because of rising health care costs, insurers needed to raise their rates, some quite precipitously. However, Gov. Patrick prevailed on the insurance commissioner to reject 235 of the 274 requested increases and cap the rates. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, “Sure enough, the five major state insurers have so far collectively lost $116 million due to the rate cap. Three of them are now under administrative oversight because of concerns about their financial viability.”
coming to a state near you
I don’t see how anyone can pretend that RomneyCare or ObamaCare are sustainable with even the current costs (which are sure to rise). Any real reform needs to address costs. An open market, portability, and cross-state access seem like no-brainers here. But the no-brainers aren’t getting it. They just needed to pass something and call it reform. We can’t sustain this track we are on, everyone knows it. They just plan on taxing for it down the road once the removal of the ingrained system can no longer be justified.