June 28, 2007 11:35AM 

# New Cato Paper on RomneyCare 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Today, Cato releases a new paper on the Massachusetts health plan by [David Hyman](https://www.cato.org/people/hyman.html), a Cato adjunct scholar and professor of law &amp; medicine at the University of Illinois. Hyman’s paper is titled, “[The Massachusetts Health Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8431).”

Here’s an excerpt:

> Although the legislation, as Stuart Altman put it, “is not a typical Massachusetts-Taxachusetts, oh-just-crazy-liberal plan,” there is enough “bad” and “ugly” in the mix to raise serious concerns, particularly when the desire to overregulate the health insurance market appears to be hard-wired into Massachusetts policymakers’ DNA…
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> If we want to make health insurance more affordable and avoid the “bad” and the “ugly” of the Massachusetts plan, Congress—or, barring that, individual states—should consider a “regulatory federalism” approach.

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[General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care), [Regulation](https://www.cato.org/regulatory-studies) 

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