Obama likes to believe that he’s the audacious type. And what could be more audacious than facing quantifiable clear results in one state and ignoring them completely? Actually, ignoring might be an understatement. It’s not just ignoring if you deliberately act in a way exactly opposite of what the facts are telling you. What I’m referring to is the “Massachusetts model,” also known as “Romney Care.”

In 2006 Massachusetts, perhaps without even knowing it, conducted what any good scientist loves: an experiment. They implemented under then Republican Governor Mitt Romney, a health care model that shares most of the features as the much maligned “Obama Care.” We’re talking individual mandates, massive subsidies, regulations, higher taxes, and a state government that ballooned larger than one of the contestants on the Biggest Loser after the show ended.

This health care experiment has taken Massachusetts to a predictable result at present day: skyrocketing medical costs, poor care, crushing medical bureaucracies, uninsured citizens – despite the mandate, and ultimately, cries for price controls. In this Wall Street Journal piece, the devastation of Romney Care is revealed:

… average Massachusetts insurance premiums are now the highest in the nation. Since 2006, they’ve climbed at an annual rate of 30% in the individual market. Small business costs have increased by 5.8%. Per capita health spending in Massachusetts is now 27% higher than the national average, and 15% higher even after adjusting for local wages and academic research grants. The growth rate is faster too.

What these nightmare statistics mean is that the Democratic Governor Deval Patrick, evidently summoning his inner Richard Nixon, proposed for hard price control across the health care spectrum.

Yes, you read that right: proposed PRICE CONTROLS in the year 2010!

So let me get this straight. Government comes in, takes over an entire industry, forces its citizens to partake in the ugly mess, and then after the massive failure is endured for several years, decides to “fix” the situation it created by implementing price controls. Makes sense right?

And what does our audacious president think about this mess? He wants to take the incredible Massachusetts health care failure and apply it to the entire United States!  It’s the health care “big dig!”

In case you didn’t see it the first time around, here is our video response to expanding Romney Care to the entire country, starring my very own Independence Institute web monkey.