Unemployment in Massachusetts has reached its highest level since the 1970s, officials said yesterday as they also disclosed that the state will exhaust a fund that helps laid-off workers pay for health insurance by the end of next month.
link: Unemployment at 33-year high; insurance fund running dry - The Boston Globe
...this is the plan, the Romney plan (and yes, it was backed by Kennedy too) that's often cited as a model for some federal "public option" which is, of course, no public option at all but rather state-mandated health insurance which, don't worry, if you can't afford it the state will help you pay for it except, of course, it turns out, when it does not.
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