Is Health Care Reform Falling Apart? - Megan McArdle

From the comments:

Yes, but you probably measure success and failure differently than do politicians. To them, success means getting the bill passed. Measuring the consequences and comparing to what was intended is *not* part of the success equation. That’s someone else’s problem.

And if you aren’t convinced, I give you Social Security, Medicare, and Massachusetts health care. And those are just for starters. How much political fallout have those who enacted the ethanol subsidies suffered, while almost everyone (except voters in Iowa) acknowledge that those subsidies were a horrible failure, and yet we can’t get rid of them.

So, for me, I hope that it fails to pass. But barring that, I hope that it actually succeeds if it is passed. Because we’ll be forever stuck with it if it passes.

Exactly. The Mass version of socialized medicine (brought to us, you may recall, by “Republican” Socialist George Mitt Romney, currently masquerading as a “conservative”) is a yawning money pit of a disaster, a fail of legendary proportions. But is there any move afoot in Massachusetts to repeal the damned thing?

Of course not. It will only end when it bankrupts the state entirely - which is, of course, why Mass’s congressional representatives are so hell-bent on getting their health care socialized on a national basis. (via Instapundit).

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