Ah, so it's Republicans who oppose this bill that are the pals of the health insurance industry? I don't think so. And you're telling me that in the one State where we've already tried this, a mandate that you must buy health insurance, costs did not go down, but costs went up. The cost of health insurance for the people in Massachusetts from before they enacted the mandate to after they enacted the mandate went up?
The speaker is discussing the impact of health insurance mandates on costs in Massachusetts.
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