Sarah Kliff writes on Politco.com - “Reading the health reform news in Massachusetts last week, you could easily see the glass as half full or half empty.

Health reform advocates celebrated a new report showing that, despite the devastating economic slump, the vast majority of Massachusetts residents had not dropped health insurance coverage. Just 4.8 percent of the state’s residents went without insurance, the lowest rate in the country.

But also making headlines about the same time were scathing complaints from the state’s insurance department, in which a state official called Massachusetts’s decision to reject the vast majority of insurer rate hikes a “train wreck” that would very likely lead to the insolvency of some companies.

The two story lines in the Boston newspapers succinctly encapsulate the state of the country’s first experiment in health reform. While Massachusetts has succeeded wildly at increasing coverage, it has not been able to curb skyrocketing health insurance costs.”

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