It was implemented after his term ended if I remember right.

I don't think it's all bad that the Mass. healthcare reform has not worked as well as hoped.....the rest of the states can learn from it and they are working out problems.

It's better to "experiment" with one or a few states than to put a 2,000-page monstrosity on all 50 states, all at once. Plus, every state is different in terms of ability to finance such complex programs.

Here's one of the big problems they've had:

"....Stating the obvious, officials have concluded that, “emergency room crowding and rising costs will not be solved by providing people with health insurance alone,” and, what is needed “are more primary care doctors and nurses.”......

And again, the results are going to be predictable. Without adequate primary care access, these newly insured patients will flood already crowded emergency rooms for care, further driving up spending and costs.

If you think what’s happening in Massachusetts, which by the way, has the highest density of physicians per capita in the country, is scary, replicating this scenario nationwide will be truly frightening."

"ER visits and healthcare costs rise in MA due to lack of primary care access":
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/...s-rise-in.html

But then, we could have learned that from Canada, too, where.......

"On June 9, 2005, the high court struck down a Quebec law that prohibited people from buying private health insurance to cover procedures already offered by the public system.

"Access to a waiting list is not access to health care," two of the justices wrote in their decision.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/healthcare/

When I use term "baggage" as relates to Mitt Romney, I speak of a few things were he will have to answer specific questions and not innuendos.

THAT does not disuade me from supporting him. He has experience, he has made mistakes or errors in judgement. That does not deter me from voting for him. His success certainly outweigh any of that.

Our current President did not have "baggage" similiar...he had "baggage" which was swept under the rug, but it was not from him experience in managing or governing. It had to do with a lot of personal issues and his associations and training.