Fair Share Has Done Its Fair Share

OK, one more thing...

I hope the General Assembly doesn't refight the Fair Share Health Care battle in January, and it looks like they won't, even as the bill is still being argued over in federal court. As policy, it was severely deficient, in that it would have entrenched the obselete system of employer-based health care. As politics -- i.e., as a way of highlighting the sorry state of health care in this country, as well as Wal-Mart's failures as a corporate citizen -- it has served its purpose. Massachusetts won't be the last state to enact a universal health care system in the near future, and with the Democrats in control of Congress, we'll probably even see some federal action, both on health care and on the best way to make Wal-Mart behave -- unionization.

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