Universal Health Care in Massachusetts is dead.  The budget did it!

When the way you propose to save your universal coverage plan is by eliminating coverage to tens of thousands of residents (classed as "legal immigrants" — presumably those here under a visa or with a permanent resident card) and "slowing enrollment" at a time when it has spiked (from 165,000 to nearly 177,000 in the last three months) because of rising unemployment, it's over.

Needless to say: although the state is no longer offering coverage to those who most need it, the latter will not be exempt from the $1200 penalty for not having it. Doh!

So, anyway.  Now that universal coverage is dead, what should we call what we've got instead?  I vote for something simple and understated, like just add air-quotes.

Universal Health Coverage?  What Universal Health Coverage?  Oh, you mean: "Universal Health Coverage"!  Yeah, I'm totally "covered"! 

Come on.  Everybody likes air-quotes, and this way there won't be any need for costly changes to the literature.  Plus, all those legal immigrants and the newly unemployed will get plenty of exercise making air-quotes when they're paying their penalty at the end of the year. 

Yeah, about that.  Too bad we can't throw up some air quotes around that penalty, too.  Just think of it like you're paying for "health care" and it's not so bad!