ACA-Like Reforms In Massachusetts Saved Thousands of Lives

See Adrianna McIntyre and Jon Cohn.

You might think that enacting similar reforms, only with an additional huge expansion of Medicaid, would count as the most important legislative victory for progressives in decades. But remember, when Mitt Romney signed a bill passed by massive supermajorities of Massachusetts Democrats that overrode several of the governor’s vetoes unilaterally enacted it, he infected the whole concept with Republican cooties. Better millions of people die until the Magic Ponies And Ice Cream Castles In The Air Act of Never can be passed than be a sellout, man.