The L.A. Times Friday covered the maturing Massachusetts universal coverage program:
BOSTON -- Two years after the state's landmark health law was signed, the cracks are starting to show.
Costs are soaring and Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a dollar-a-pack hike in the state's cigarette tax to help pay for a larger-than-expected enrollment in the law's subsidized insurance plans.
You would think after a lead like that not much good would follow, but no:
But that hasn't dampened enthusiasm at the Statehouse. Leaders there boast that in the two years since former Gov. Mitt Romney signed the law with a choreographed flourish at historic Faneuil Hall, the number of insured residents has soared by nearly 350,000.
Read the rest here.