Ya know, actually, Romney pushing health care in Massachusetts may have been the most explicit example of how terrible ObamaCare will be.

I still say he has to apologize, unequivocally, for doing so, but in a perverse way we are able to witness the domestic equivalent of the disaster that is every foreign universal health care scheme. Don't buy for one second that France or others have great health care; it's just that their citizens are so used to not being free and not having choice that it looks effective. Despite all the good Sarkozy has done in pointing out Obama's childishness in international affairs, don't tell me that France is some kind of example to which the United States should strive to emulate.

 

 The state’s ambitious plan to shake up how providers are paid could have a hidden price for patients: Controlling Massachusetts’ soaring medical costs, many health care leaders believe, may require residents to give up their nearly unlimited freedom to go to any hospital and specialist they want.

Never mind that the paragraph itself is structured in such a way as to make choice seem like a bad thing. The point is that rationing has come to Massachusetts because that's what has to happen to a system of universal health care. There was no way around it there and there is no way around it on a national level.

These are inevitable consequences ladies and gentlemen. You cannot work your way around them. This is the most important economic lesson one can learn from our health care debate; every single foray into socialism, at any level and in any industry, will inevitably result in shortages or, in this case, care rationing to save costs. It's that simple.

You can’t reap these savings without limiting patients’ choices in some way,’’ said Paul Levy, chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “It’s a huge issue, it’s huge.’’ Dr. James Mongan, president of Partners HealthCare, a Beth Israel Deaconess competitor, agreed that it wouldn’t “work without some restriction on choice.’’

That's absolutely right. Watch closely what happens in Massachusetts. Everything bad that is happening there will happen to ObamaCare, only the consequences will be magnified and exponentially worse.

Russ