This just in from the Department of Health...

Hawaii ending universal child health care

HONOLULU – Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.

Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.

"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."

Yeah, who would have seen that coming? That's the downfall of socialism you dimbulbs. If you're just going to get it for free, what's the incentive not to get it for free? And if no matter how hard you try, you're still going to get the same as someone not trying at all, why bother trying?

My question is... if it's "universal", doesn't that mean everybody? Socialized medicine only works when you don't have everyone in it I guess. Which would explain why so many Canadians come south of the border to get medical care.