Making Sense of Nonsense
A column in today's Boston Globe offers this not-so-flattering reason why blue-state Massachusetts voted for Republican Scott Brown and against the Democrats' plan for health insurance reform:
One of the smartest analyses of this week's Senate election came from Stephen Colbert, the faux talk show host on Comedy Central. He summed up the race by saying Massachusetts, a state with near-universal healthcare, had a message for the rest of the country: "I got mine, Jack. You can" — well, you can imagine, but it isn't nice.
If you believe the Democratic spinmeisters — and that includes a few media cheerleaders — we in Massachusetts just love our new mandatory, almost-kinda-sorta universal health care plan. But if you believe the people of Massachusetts, you get a different story. According to a Rasmussen poll conducted of Massachusetts residents last June:
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Massachusetts voters say their state’s health care reform effort has been a success.
Sure, most Massachusetts residents are now 'covered' because tens of thousands have been required by law to buy products offered by private corporations. Meanwhile, the cost of those products keeps going up, and nothing is being done to rein in the underlying costs of providing health care in the state.
This is the model the Dems in Congress want the rest of the nation to follow.
So in electing Scott Brown as the 41st vote against Obamacare, the people of Massachusetts weren't telling the rest of America, I've got mine and f- you. They were, at least in part, expressing how profoundly unenthusiastic they are about this type of 'reform.'
