NYTimes: A Lesson on Health Care From Massachusetts

There is only one real-life model in this country for the kind of sweeping change being considered in Washington, and that is in Massachusetts, where a landmark law signed in April 2006 has achieved near-universal coverage. And in that state, leaders decided from the outset to decouple access and cost, and to deal first with covering the uninsured.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29sack.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hpw

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