Massachusetts, the Model for Obamacare has the highest health costs in the nation

I've pointed this out before but as you'll note from the source of this headline the so called main stream media continue to studiously (desperately, cravenly, criminally?) avoid reporting this rather crucial factoid.

As Modern Healthcare reports:

Massachusetts, whose health care reform program was used as a template for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, had the highest per capita health spending in the U.S. in 2009. According to the commission's report, the state spent $9,278 per person on health care in 2009, which was 36 percent higher than the national average of $6,815, and 11.2 percent more than the next-highest state, New York, which spent $8,341.

And I, utterly unable to help myself will pile on by pointing out that 'ol #2 New York was among the first to implement the two provisions of the ACA loved by health inflation aficionados everywhere:  shall issue and community rate.  Oh, and in case you love inflation, MA has the highest patient wait times to see a new doctor/specialist - 54 days, 2.5 times greater than the national average and more than twice as long as a metro like DFW which is larger, growing more than twice as fast and unlike Boston is 'diverse'.  Oh, Massachusetts also has the second highest concentration of Physicians in the nation. Amazing, ain't it?

For a libertarian conservative like me, PPACA is the gift that just keeps on giving!

But you gotta feel for the ink stained leftist wretches:  I mean if you're trying to jam a law called the Affordable Care Act down the throats of a gagging, choking electorate without the use of lubrication, the last thing you want to point out is that the Affordable part of the title is an absolute screaming, fucking lie.  After all, what are we here?  A goddamn democracy?

All hail the great and glorious Federal Superstate and our Elective Monarch on the Eagle throne, or for almost three weeks this depressed holiday season, the Eagle Chaise Lounge.

You know, I think I may finally be losing my temper on this thing.