When MassCare passed, it was supposed to lower the average cost of health care by getting relatively cheap young people into the system, and ending the inefficiencies of caring for the uninsured. Unfortunately, it hasn't quite worked out that way. The bill for the uninsured only dropped by about 40%; the young, cheap people turned out to almost all need subsidies, and worse, some of them figured out how to game the system by buying insurance, getting a bunch of expensive procedures, and then dropping the insurance again.To err is human; to really f*ck things up requires government.
UPDATE: And remember, dear readers - MassCare was birthed by none other than (then governor) Mitt Romney. Remember that come 2012 election time.
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