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Massachusetts health care reform

Report examines Romney emails, advocacy for individual mandate in Mass. healthcare

Global Politics

When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he passed an ambitious healthcare reform law that President Barack Obama says was the model for Obamacare. While Romney has criticized the individual mandate contained in the federal law, he was a major proponent of it in Massachusetts.

Poll finds vast majority of Massachusetts residents like Romneycare

Health & Medicine

‘To the Point: Healthcare and the Election’

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