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Robert Laszewski, Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review, June 3, 2008

Massachusetts was a bold and very difficult piece of legislation to accomplish. It has often been described as an experiment. The greatest contribution experiments make is to tell us a lot about what works and what doesn't so we can move on successfully from there.

Massachusetts policymakers will now work to improve the plan. But without a major cost containment effort--way beyond anything they are even talking about now--they won't make much progress.

Whatever happens next in Massachusetts, this plan's results, a plan that closely parallels Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's national health reform plans, will likely now undermine both state and federal attempts to copy it. Neither the Congress or any state legislature is going to embark on a plan whose costs have quickly become so problematic for such an incomplete result.



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