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Massachusetts health law: success or headed for trouble?

E-mail | Print | Comments () Posted by Kay Lazar July 22, 2010 12:10 PM

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Massachusetts' landmark health care law is drawing a lot of national attention today from analysts and economists on Kaiser Health News.

Two columnists come to two differing conclusions about the success of our 2006 health insurance overhaul, which served as a blueprint for the national law.

In a "Dispatch from Massachusetts," Boston University School of Public Health Assistant Professor Austin Frakt writes that the rule requiring nearly every Massachusetts citizen to have insurance or pay a penalty is working.

But Grace-Marie Turner, President of the Galen Institute, argues in her column that "Massachusetts shows federal reform (is) headed for trouble."

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