“The real problem is that this . . . sucking sound of money has been going into this health-care reform. And I would argue that it’s being propped up so that the federal government and the Obama administration can drive it through.”

– Massachusetts state treasurer Tim Cahill, alleging while trashing Obamacare that the federal government is propping up Massachusetts’ struggling state health insurance program so as to keep its failures from serving as a model for expectations on the federal level.