Obama in Boston: Does Massachusetts prove Obamacare will work? [View all]

President Obama, in a scramble to defend his health-care reforms, has a simple message: If you question whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will work, just look at Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts has seen a dramatic reduction in the percentage of residents who lack insurance coverage for medical care, good competition among insurance firms to offer that coverage, and no big spike in costs, says Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology expert on health policy who helped design both Obamacare and the earlier law in his home state.

“We need to be patient,” Mr. Gruber told reporters in a briefing organized by the White House ahead of Obama’s Wednesday trip to Boston. Residents of Massachusetts didn’t sign up in droves in the first month, and Obamacare's success “needs to be measured in months and years, not days and weeks.”

He pushed back against critics who have framed the ACA as a government takeover of health care. “The notion that this is ... antithetical to private insurance is simply wrong,” he said, noting that employer-based coverage of Massachusetts workers increased after the state enacted its law.



http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/1030/Obama-in-Boston-Does-Massachusetts-prove-Obamacare-will-work

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