What is coming from our nation's new healthcare law will likely be markedly worse than Massachusetts' healthcare law. A general rule of thumb with government (albeit not a 100% certain rule): The more government employees required to administer a new law and the more pages contained within that new law equals a greater waste of taxpayer money, a greater inefficiency of the law's created bureaucracy and a greater ability for that new bureaucracy to expand beyond the root intentions of the law.
Given that frequently true equation, our nation's new healthcare law has a cluster fuck potential with only the sky as its limit.

The ultimate irony of Massachusetts being empirical evidence of the awaiting bigger nightmare comes in the form of the only chance to stop it from happening. Like it or not the only chance of stopping the new healthcare law is electing the guy who helped make Massachusetts healthcare law a reality. Once the law kicks in (in Obama's second term) the law is a fact of life for many years to come (regardless of the negative consequences).

The chances to stop this thing are not good. Romney has to win (less than 50/50 chance of that happening). Along with that, a senate that is 50 Reps or 50+ if there are Reps unwilling to vote procedurally to stop the new law (chances of a 50+ rep senate makeup are about 50/50 - in further irony it probably hinges on the senate race in Massachusetts). Finally we need these newly elected Pols to follow through on the repeal -- even in the face of the outcry from the MSM that they are, even purposefully, killing the poor (IMHO that is always a markedly less than 50/50 possibility of happening).

This is the single remaining path to keep government from not only putting their incompetent hands completely around everyone's healthcare but likely a gateway to the government becoming an even greater 'big brother'. It is ironic, surreal, frustrating, depressing to even contemplate the reality.....

What this country needs is a healthy, thriving underground economy. Not just in health care, in everything.

I wonder if somebody's done a study measuring the effects of health care administration (as opposed to direct care operations) on health care costs. How have administrative costs changed over the years as a percentage of total health care costs?

How much of that fiscal over-reach is from the bill as signed by Romney and how much is from the legislature tinkering with it?

After all, in signing the original bill, Romney vetoed eight sections of the bill. The Massachusetts legislature almost-immediately overrode six of his eight vetoes and within a few months had overridden the remaining two.

Yeah not to defend Romney, but as I understand it the legislature was hell-bent on passing this thing and he was trying to ride the tiger, to have some control over the final product.

I am sympathetic, but I know that kind of explanation won't fly with most people.

The difference between the Massachusetts universal care debacle and the Obama-Pelosi-Reid universal care debacle is that the state of Massachusetts was trying to get out from under Medicare refusing to reimburse it for indigent care at the state's emergency rooms.

Massachusetts had to operate under the strictures of the existing Medicare bureaucracy in putting their universal care together.

Obama, Pelosi, and Reid were mostly free to completely redesign health insurance and the delivery of health care in the US.

Instead, they chose to punt.

All ObamaCare does is put additional financial burdens on taxpayers and employers while providing no extra benefits to those who already have health insurance.

They ignored the burden that spurious malpractice lawsuits place upon the system - mostly to placate their trial lawyer benefactors.

They chose not to sever health insurance from employment - forcing people into exhorbitantly expensive COBRA payments if they lose the jobs that sponsor their healthcare.

The two programs are really not comparable - except in the sense that we're all screwed if we can't get our politicians to stop forcing the taxpayers to fund a middle-class lifestyle for the welfare class.

Whether Obamacare succeeds or fails, thank heavens no one here confuses our future Obamacare with our history of galloping healthcare inflation, our current galloping healthcare inflation, and our future galloping healthcare inflation.
Nope, no confusion here, none at all with this crowd.