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Carey Goldberg

‘Prices are wrong’: Caps on hospital costs in US gain ground

The landmark Massachusetts health reform of 2006 was so successful it served as the model for Obamacare. Then, state leaders vowed to “bend the curve” of ever-rising health costs.

That hasn’t gone as well.

So now calls are rising for a new reform, one in which Massachusetts would join a small, but growing number of states, from California to Rhode Island, that have begun to impose caps on certain health-care prices.

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