Massachusetts enacted a law in 2006 that would provide, virtually all state civilians with health insurance, while fiscally penalizing companies who don’t provide the insurance to cover their workers; excluding "smallest" companies with less than 10 employees. Democratic House Speaker, Sal DiMasi said that "Nobody in Massachusetts will ever be turned away for health care." It was designed to be the "model for the rest of the country."
A year after the law passed, the New York Times reported that the state insurers jacked up rates twice as much the national average.
Three years later, the state of Massachusetts is forced to deal with soaring health care costs, which has now added to a multi-billion dollar state deficit. What Massachusetts did was just confirm that the Canadian Health Care is actually more costly (you’re paying for everyone, not just yourself), with significantly reduced coverage.
I’ve been an adamant supporter that government is too irresponsible, guided by pork barrel wasteful spending, to efficiently implement this. Even worse, when an entity provides a product or service without basic competition principles, then there’s nothing to stop them from jacking up the price. And the government will jack up the price.
It’s nice to have free things in life, but in truth, not even death is free.
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