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Mass Success, Pt.1 -- Massachusetts Health insurance gets good grades.

At last we have some meaningful results within the plummeting tailspin of our health insurance world. Many fine articles are emerging and heralding the news as this is written, but the best I’ve found so far was reported by Kevin Sack of the New York Times. Massachusetts seems to be leading the way into the dense jungle of health insurance woes with their very aggressive approach in implementing the most radical health insurance reform to provide substantial positive results. Borrowing ideas from the respectable Commonwealth Fund, they are formulating a proof of concept that has proven to be one of the most controversial since the beginning of the presidential primaries.

This endeavor has many similarities to the proposed health insurance propositions of the Democratic candidates. Unfortunately the Democrats may never have the chance to provide their own proof without the tangible confidence of a nation that demands proof before they will believe. Some of the greatest criticisms of the Massachusetts health insurance/care initiative were that:

 1) Not a high enough percentage of the problem sector would be helped to any significance;
 2) The private health insurance industry would be blown away as a result, thereby collapsing the national
      economy (funny no one has noticed that our economy is already collapsing and this plan isn’t even in
      the national game);
 3) The system will collapse under it’s own weight.

Since these were all legitimate concerns, it would be a good idea to study the results of this smaller, but representive model.

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