Success of MA health care plan (basis of Obamacare), which began 7 years ago.
People often forget that a major part of what Obama accomplished was a large expansion of Medicaid. Unfortunately, some governors have decided not to accept free federal funds to accomplish this, so it won't help all of the people it was intended to.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57459563/massachusetts-health-care-plan-6-years-later/
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As a result, the state went from 90 percent of its residents insured to 98 percent, the highest rate in the nation.
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"The idea of the mandate was to bring those healthy people into the pool, thereby bringing those prices down, and making health insurance affordable for everyone," (MIT economist Jonathan) Gruber said. "If you want to tell insurers, 'You can't charge the sick more than the healthy,' you have to tell insurers, 'Don't worry, the healthy will still buy insurance.' Those two have to go hand in hand."
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Of the 439,000 previously uninsured Massachusetts residents who obtained insurance after the reform became law, 83 percent did through publicly-funded programs, such as Commonwealth Care and MassHealth. Federal Medicaid funds underwrite about half the state's cost. Residents may choose plans from eight providers.
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Today, 90 percent of Massachusetts doctors believe quality of care has improved since the reform, which two-thirds of state residents say they support.
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