Left Fires Preemptive Strike on MassCare

spectator.org — The Obama administration and their allies in the progressive community have a problem when it comes to selling their brand of health care reform. While they argue that we'll be able to reduce health-care spending and improve quality by having the government intervene and provide subsidies for everybody to get insured, they cannot name a single example at the state level where this has worked. In fact, the opposite has been the case. The most prominent example is Massachusetts, which implemented a plan similar to the one proposed by Obama during the campaign, but has seen costs explode. As the New York Times reported yesterday, "government and industry officials agree that the plan will not be sustainable over the next 5 to 10 years if they do not take significant steps to arrest the growth of health spending."