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In 2006, Massachusetts enacted the country's first law mandating near-universal health care coverage,¹ and the state now has the lowest proportion of uninsured residents in the United States. The Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy estimated that only 2.7% of state residents remained uninsured as of spring 2009.² National policymakers have turned to Massachusetts as a potential model for federal health care reform, and reform proposals recently put forward in Congress include elements from the Massachusetts plan, such as the individual mandate to buy insurance, public-program expansions, and a health insurance exchange.

Despite the state's low percentage of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (G.K.S., R.J.B., T.S., J.M.C., J.M.B.); the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA (R.J.B.); and Social Science Research Solutions, Media, PA (M.J.H.).

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0909851) was published on October 21, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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