Shikha Dalmia on the Failures of RomneyCare
Liberal pundits were thrilled by a recent (non-peer-reviewed) blog post claiming that RomneyCare—the universal coverage program that Mitt Romney enacted in Massachusetts in 2006—has put a lid on skyrocketing health care costs. But as Shikha Dalmia observes, they shouldn't pop the cork yet: The evidence shows neither that the declining costs will last nor that they are the result of the program. The truth is that RomneyCare is still not working.
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