Beware the Massachusetts model for health care

Here's Mark Steyn:

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. That's why Republicans need to resist this in Congress, because if we cross this line we can never go back.

As usual, look to Massachusetts for the triumph of "good intentions" over sound government policy. The Bay State health care mandate that was supposed to expand coverage while keeping costs manageable has resulted in a system 1) twice as expensive as estimated, 2) where nobody can find a primary care doctor, resulting in 3) a spike in expensive ER visits.

But, like the Big Dig, there's no going back. We're stuck with it and the steadily climbing taxes required to support it.