1. Doctors leaving the state or retiring early.
2. Rationing,
3. Long waits for docs if you can find one.
4. Higher premiums.
5. Denial of claims rising.
6. Bankrupting the state.

Other than that it’s great…

What I’ve been finding laughable is the left’s version of this narrative, which is 180 degrees from reality:

Bay Staters already have a wonderful universal health system of their own, which they love, and they voted for Brown to kill Obamacare because don’t want to have to pay extra federal taxes to give everyone else in the country the same benefits — or to have Obamacare interfere with that wonderful system they already have.

So, back in August, I made an appointment with my doctor for my annual physical, “Soonest we have is January,” the scheduler told me. Fine. Par for the course.

On Tuesday, I was working on the historic election of Senator Scott Brown. Around 12:30 pm, my blackberry flash an alert: “1:00 PM – Dr. Smith’s Office. Annual Physical.” Of course, I had to call and cancel. I rescheduled at the same time. The receptionist told me good news: “You’re in luck. I have an opening February 17th.” Another month.

I like my doctor. She’s really good with referrals and she’s also really good looking (heh). But even if I wanted to find a new PCP who could fit me in sooner, you can’t GET a new PCP easily. Many don’t take new patients. I found that out in my search for this one. I imagine that’s not unique to Massachusetts, but I don’t know. I do know that someone did a claymation skit on health care waits in Massachusetts a while back, and it was dead on. No pun intended.

What matters is that they control it, and you. As it matters to the LittleLiberals, the vast number of the unknowns, that they get a vicarious charge of the exercise of that power, an erogenous discharge of blind aggression, temporary relief for their inner torments and primeval urges.
Allowances must be made for the few who, from self deception or base stupidity, really think that government butchered health care will really be an improvement.
One can never be sure when one enters the lower sewers of human nature for speculative purposes.

Brown walked a tigh rope well, but he supports RomneyCare. We can’t delude oursleves. There are actually three right of center gubernatorial tickets in Mass for 2010 and none are advocating the the repeal of RomneyCare.

It is somewhat ironic that RomneyCare may be the deathknell of Oabamcare, not because it failed, but because it took the issue of the table for liberals. 98% of Bay Staters are insured and we have an insurance exchange. The Democrats had nothing to offer the bleeding hearts in this bleeding heart state.

Republicans opposed ObamaCare for the obvious reason. Many independents opposed ObamaCare for equitable reasons. Under ObamaCare, residents here would carry all the burdens to insure the uninsured in other states. It was a bad deal for the state and Brown articulated that well. Conservative Dems and Union Dems opposed it because of the cadillac tax and the cuts to medicare. Again, these issues resonated more strongly here because of RomneyCare. There was no percieved upside to ObamaCare cuts and taxes because whatever it offered, Mass already had.

I’m as pyshed as anyone, but the MA-Senate race was a unique cocktail of issues and anxieties.

Republicans opposed ObamaCare for the obvious reasons.

Your title is misleading. RomneyCare is not government run. I guess your’e the “authority” on this issue so feel free to enlighten me but I find that it diminishes your credibility asserting that it is. I agree with Swamp_Yankee’s comments. If Mass. currently had a large uninsured population, Coakley would have been able to successfully paint Republicans as evil, heartless and who want to see you die of cancer. It has worked everytime up until Romney took the issue off the table.

I agree everything points to the Bay Stater’s wanting to stop ObamaCare. However, it is important if Republicans want to regain and keep power that they understand that wanting to stop ObamaCare and not wanting socialized medicine are not the same thing.

There is another reason why people who actually like the Bay State health care do not want ObamaCare. One very liberal democrat who called Bill Bennett’s morning in America show on Election Day put it best. She thinks their health care is the best anywhere, but she is doesn’t want to have to ask Chuck Schumer “for permission for my son to receive a procedure”.

Many people who weren’t against Romney’s health care just don’t want Washington dictating the terms. They like socialized medicine, they just don’t want to beg Washington for understanding. They don’t want Nancy Pelosi deciding how much everyone can spend and on what. Bay Staters want to keep the politicians making these decisions within “slapping distance”.

So, yes, they were against ObamaCare being foisted upon them from Washington. My take away, it doesn’t matter if the Republicans come up with the perfect solution. People in Massachusetts don’t want ANYONE in Washington telling them how to do something that they think they can decide locally.

Given their history, going back before the founding of the country, that shouldn’t be surprising. Given all the Tea Party actions, it shouldn’t be hard to understand.

The real message, in my opinion is that the Bay Staters want the power of the federal government constrained.

Want real change, how about we get rid of all the CZARS, and reduce all the cabinets and go back to let the states run everything not specifically reserved for the Federal Government. I think it says something about that in the constitution that Adam’s fellow have a hand in that?