Massachusetts health care reform

Massachusetts Special Election: A Mandate on Health Care Reform?

It's fitting that the Massachusetts special election to replace late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy on Jan. 19 (read Jill Lawrence's coverage of the race here) will intersect almost perfectly with the next Senate vote on the revised health care reform bill. If any state knows health care, it's the Bay State, which passed its own landmark health care reform bill in 2006. Indeed, the two events are so close together that Republican candidate Scott Brown has built his campaign around the premise that he will be the "41st senator" to stop health care reform in its tracks and "force the Democrats to ...

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