4 state example.

• Position: STATELINE

The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation found only a modest increase in costs for the state's taxpayers since the legislature passed the health care reform law in 2006. The study, according to the Associated Press, reported direct state spending attributable to the law grew from a little more than $1 billion in FY 2006 to more than $1.9 billion in FY 2011. Federal reimbursements brought the state spending down to about...