WaPo: Brown’s Win Hardly Repudiation Of Health Reform — Massachusetts Already Has It The Washington Post points out that Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s (R-MA) win was not a repudiation of health care reform, but something much more complex. Massachusetts already has health care reform and a very low rate of uninsured people, which Brown supports, and Brown ran effectively against a national plan: “Brown’s message underscores a little-noticed political dynamic in a country where rates of the uninsured vary widely, from Massachusetts to Texas, where 25 percent are uninsured. Seeking national universal coverage means sending money from states that have tried hard to expand coverage, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest, to states that have not, mostly in the South and West.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=131615