When Mitt Romney signed the Massachusetts health care plan into law, he bragged that it would provide universal health care coverage. In fact, he still says that on the campaign trail. After all, the plan does mandate that everyone in the state buy health insurance. The state has done pretty well at the welfare aspects of the bill, signing up some 150,000 people for subsidized insurance (families of four earning as much as $62,000 are eligible for subsidies). But the latest reports from Massachusetts indicate that of 170,000 people who are uninsured but have incomes too high for subsidies, only 17,500 have complied with the mandate so far. Someone should have pointed out that the Massachusetts mandate is probably unenforceable and almost certainly not going to achieve universal coverage. Oh, that’s right, we did.