Category: massachusetts

On Monday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill that could save $200 billion in health care costs over the next 15 years. This seems to me to be an important development, worthy of national coverage, because the Massachusetts law was signed by presidential candidate Mitt Romney and because it was the model for President Obama's health care reform legislation.

Yet the coverage seems spotty even in Massachusetts. From The Boston Globe and many others, we mostly get short pieces that report the potential savings and otherwise quote partisans about whether the bill is a good idea or not. It's not easy to find any information on the bill itself, or how the cost control measures would work....