Variety of attempts by states to expand health care coverage have all failed

In each case, costs outran estimates and programs have been scaled back. Peter Suderman in Reason details a few of those cases:

The Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as ObamaCare — isn't the first attempt to expand health insurance coverage in America. Before Washington passed its law, a number of states took smaller-scale cracks at the job — each of which proved far more expensive than planned. As the nation dives further into debt, the destabilizing fiscal effects of those programs don't bode well for how ObamaCare will shape the U.S. budget.