Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2009

Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable: What the Failure of the "Massachusetts Model" Tells Us about Health Care Reform

Michael Tanner

June 2009

The Cato Institute

Abstract

When Massachusetts passed its pioneering health care reforms in 2006, critics warned that they would result in a slow but steady spiral downward toward a government-run health care system. Three years later, those predictions appear to be coming true.