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of health.  In Mass., Costs Rise Again for Universal Health
Coverage  The cost of subsidizing health insurance keeps going
up in Massachusetts.  Massachusetts MapThat’s noteworthy because
the state’s rule requiring everyone to buy insurance resembles
Hillary Clinton’s proposal to mandate health insurance for all
Americans, and because the Mass. plan has been cited as a
possible model in several other states.  The subsidized-
insurance program — aimed at those who can’t afford insurance on
their own — will cost “significantly more” than the $869 million
the state’s governor proposed in his 2009 budget just two months
ago, Massachusetts’s top financial official told the Boston
Globe.  The program’s cost is rising not only because all
health-care costs are going up, but also because more people
than expected have signed up. Meanwhile, a rule that charges a
penalty to businesses that don’t pr