As health costs soar, Mass. seeks solution

WASHINGTON — One of the most familiar criticisms of the new national health-care law is that it does little to contain costs.
And that’s true: The primary goal is to provide universal access to health insurance. Cost controls are supposed to come later.

“Later� has arrived now for Massachusetts’ statewide plan, enacted in 2006 and similar in many ways to the federal one. Some
98 percent of all adults and nearly 100 percent of all children

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