brought health care to nearly everyone in the state of massachusetts. we know it put new requirements on businesses and individuals. if that sounds familiar, it's because many call it the model for obamacare. romney says he would repeal the federal law and let each state find their own solution. the supreme court is going to hear a case on whether the federal law is constitutional. if it takes full effect as scheduled in 2014, you might get a sense of how the law might change things if you look at massachusetts. you could do worse. see how things have gone there. take a look. in her mid-20s, jacqueline was working in her parents restaurant. like a lot of people her age, she didn't think she needed health insurance. it was too expensive anyway. >> it was almost $700 a month. i said i'm going to have to go without it. >> in 2006, governor mitt romney put his name on a health care law. faced with a state requirement to have insurance or face a fine, she signed up. >> how much did it cost you? >> no money. >> you didn't have to pay anything? >> no. >> she w

his health care law in massachusetts. how did that law really change the way people get health care or pay for it? some answers as sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. >>> good morning. with super tuesday coming up, mitt romney obviously would like to secure his lead in the republican presidential race. there is a flash point that we're going to be looking at throughout this year on the show, and that's his record as massachusetts governor. especially with regard to the signing of the law that's brought health care to nearly everyone in his state of massachusetts. we know that it ebbs up and downed the government's safety net and put new requirements on businesses and individuals. if that sounds familiar, it's because many call it the model for obama care. although romney himself said he would repeal that law and let each state find its solution. the supreme court is going to hear a case this month on whether the federal law is, in fact, constitutional. if it takes full effect as scheduled in 2014, it might get a sense of

the british authorities, governor lawrence, governor shirley in massachusetts, and the men of massachusetts said now is the time to strike at acadia and nova scotia. what can we do there? if we push out the french, we will settle there. the land will be ours. it's wartime. the enemy cannot be trusted. and so the key to the expulsion was the new england invasion assisted and, of course, the new englanders were coming to nova scotia which was british territory, but they were to making war against the french forts in the border region. that was what was occurring. and if those attacks were successful, then they could go about the expulsion and only if the attacks were successful. it was wartime again. and sure enough, the new england men, 2,000, with some british support, most of the troops were new england, they had some british ships assisting them and a couple hundred british troops. they took over the french canadian forts, and then shortly after those forts were taken over, the year was 1755. it was the summer. the government in nova scotia, the british government decided to go ahead with

four years ago mitt romney even called the law he signed in massachusetts a model for the t. he wrote an op-ed in "usa today" in july 2009 while the health care debate was raging, calling on the president to follow the example he set with his law in massachusetts, and then the president, when he proposed his plan said he was basing it on mitt romney's idea in massachusetts. now that the mandate sun popular with conservatives, romney is trying to disown what he did in massachusetts. well, mitt can run, but he can't hide. no matter what he tries to say now, mitt romney is a walking, talking amicus brief in favor of the president's health care law. if he tries to make it an issue in a debate with president obama, it's just going to confirm that he's the etch-a-sketch candidate. he should just admit it was planned all along. if mitt romney is the nomine in effect health care will be off the table as an issue, and with that i am going to call on the chairman of our judiciary committee who is in the proceedings, senator leahy. >> interesting. it's interesting, too, the final argume

massachusetts health reform law. when they attempted to do it on a national basis through the democrats' health-care initiative, all the republicans who said they were for this deserted the ship, jumped off the ship. but romney could not because he was pictured holding the steering wheel with ted kennedy when they made it happen. he finds himself in an ironic situation in terms of supporting something that was very much a republican orthodoxy and then watched all the republicans abandoned it. the truth is, romney had a very minimalist vision of what massachusetts health reform would be. it was one that i was in the advocacy community at that time that we did not support at all. but the democrats overwhelmingly had control of the house and senate. we were able to work with them to make what is now referred to as romneycare, much more robust and fall. right now and massachusetts, more than 98% of all residents have health insurance. about 99.8% of children have health insurance. for every flaw doctor will hinder named,

and he is from massachusetts. it is expected.make this projection based on the exit poll information that we have received as well as some of the actual numbers coming in. mitt romney is the winner in vermont. his second win of the night. he also won, we project in virginia. newt gingrich wins in georgia. we will take a look at the map and show you what is going on right now. you see it. wins for mitt romney in vermont and virginia, and you see the win for newt gingrich in georgia. we are waiting for ohio. the polls in ohio have closed, but we have not been able to make a projection. we have other states closing at the top of the the hour at 8:00 massachusetts closing, and oklahoma closes, and tennessee closes. that is right at the top of the hour. we will see if we can make any projections in those three states, but it is a significant development and a win is a win. mitt romney has two wins tonight so far tonight. so it is a significant development. it was fully expected, but anderson cooper, i expect that the mitt romney is ex

you obviously served for massachusetts. mitt romney was governor of massachusetts. is mitt romney going to win massachusetts. i love your views on him as governor. >> i believe he will win massachusetts. the republican party of massachusetts and he obviously had a long relationship and there's a certain -- people want to see the hometown guy do well. it did not do as well for him in michigan. he won but very narrowly. that was not a great victory. as a governor, he was -- he pretty soon after becoming governor, first of all, he was a faker. he ran for governor claiming that he was somewhat moderate, and as soon as he got elected governor it was clear that he wanted to be president. he had not much interest in governorship. >> another more moderate republican said we've got some with potomic fever. he moored further and further to the right. a alarming part of the district i was representing was in southeastern massachusetts and is a very economically troubled area, because it used to be low ends manufacturing garments and textiles in particular and was trashed in am

what is romney's legacy in massachusetts with respect to health care? >> he was a part of this brought coalition that i described earlier that finally saw that we had another than the usual two choices when it came to health care, between a perfect solution or no solution at all. i know he's proud of it. every governor has their portrait painted when they leave office. he came in one weekend and used the office that i now sit in to take pictures to get ready for his portrait and he had painted into that portrait a copy of the health care reform bill. he's proud of it, and he ought to be proud of it. it's done a lot of good for a lot of people. >> you know, it's so ironic, deval, because we, as he was framing this in massachusetts and i served with him before you were elected and we were part of a health care committee and negotiation with the bush administration over what this health care reform would look like and he was totally proud of it. there were a lot of us like me saying to the department of health and human services can i have what romney got

buena noche para romney ya se anota tres victorias se le proyecta ganador en virginia, vermont y massachusettsperan con ansias tenemos entendido que el ex gobernador esta esperando ver los resultados de ohio, un estado que se le hace muy difÍcil de ganar a santorum a pesar de haber invertido en ohio, por lo menos 4 millones de dÓlares, contra santorum que sÓlo invirtio 900 mil dÓlares, asÍ que por supuesto todos aqui a la expectativa de la llegada de mitt romney regresamos con ustedes en cuanto Él aparezca. >>> angie desde boston, gracias hablamos ahora de ohio en este momento, tres puntos porcentual lo que difÍcil di a santorum de romney, cristina lond sno en ese estado crucial para los precandidatos y se nos une en directo. >>> gracias josÉ, santorum no esperÓ a los resultados de ohio, saliÓ a celebrar esta hablando en este momento, a celebrar sus victorias en oklahoma y tennessee, dijo que lo seguro que esta noche se lleva por lo menos 2 medallas de oro y varias de plata y que estaba aquÍ en ohio porque querÍa dirigirse a la clase trabajadora que es la que mantiene y la que impulsa este paÍ

the basis of the national plan is what we did in massachusetts. just in how it's structured, you can see that. it's the same structure. and in the development of it, i can testify i was asked constantly, how did you do it in massachusetts? how did you make it work in massachusetts? the federal law is more ambitious in two ways. first of all, in massachusetts, mitt romney had a nice leg up because the feds paid for his bill. the federal government doesn't have that leg up. second, massachusetts did not try to take on cost control which the affordable care act does. >> it has to have cost control due to the fact it didn't have a revenue stream. one more question here. this difference, what is the fight about, then? is it just purely politics, professor? there is no substantive difference between what romney wanted to tell people, look, as he put it, 92% of the people in massachusetts have health care insurance, the other 8 don't. i'm going to make sure the other 8 get it. >> you don't have to listen to my opinion, just do the logic on this. this was

we ran the experiment in massachusetts. we covered two-thirds of our uninsured. we fixed a broken insurance market and cut premiums for individuals in half. for people who don't have insurance, premiums have fallen in half. president obama looked at this, said, this works. i think i'm wrong. i think a mandate is the way to go and he adopted that. i think he deserves praise for what he did. >> he also did it for two other reasons, chris. i think one of them was personal and political in that a key moment in the obama presidential campaign, if not the pivotal moment, was when senators ted kennedy of massachusetts endorsed barack obama. >> sure was. >> and implicit in that was the promise which the president carried out, barack obama carried out as president, to push for health care reform. and this was the chosen path. don't forget that the president has chewed to the dismay of the a gregressors of otherwise own y what would basically be an extension of health care. he said, no r, he was going the compromised route, the route that president kennedy had accepted. th

, and then thehe p plan said he was basing it on mitt romney's idea in massachusetts. now that the mandate sun popular with conservatives, romney is trying to disown what he did massachusetts. well, mitt can run, but he can't hide. no matter what he tries to say now, mitt romney is a walking, talking amicus brief in favor of the president's health care law. if he tries to make it an issue in a debate with president obama, it's just going to confirm that he's the etch-a-sketch candidate. he should just admit it was planned all along f.mitt romney is the nominee, in effect health care will be off issue, and with that i am going to call on the chairman of our ju proceedings, senator leahy. >> i found the proceeding interesting. it's interesting, too, the final argument, the last two minutes of therg the solicitor general saying that this would work well just as it does in massachusetts to cover everybody. that did bring a little bit of a murmur in the courtroom, but as you listened to the argument on the question of constitutionality today, it's very obvious that if this

let's look at massachusetts which already has a mandate in place. these are mandated spending numbers per capita that's the blue line and as the budget share of the massachusetts general fund budget. so this money is basically what massachusetts residents are paying for not -- doesn't include the federal funds. i've adjusted for the fact that the federal government is providing match, but it's not reported as a federal match. it's all recorded as part of the general fund. but i'm assuming the match would have been 50 mernt in any case. i'm reducing what is prorted as massachusetts expenditure by 50%. despite that you see a ramp up in spending. now one question is there is a ramp up. you can see that. is it because of the recession? for example in the 2001 episode, the recession caused the jump up in enrollment and spending. is the latest ramp up because of the recession or mom nee care. you can get some idea if you look at all the surrounding states vermont, connecticut, new hampshire and maine. which are in the same region. but from vermont, new ha

you know he had said he was living in his son's basement in order to vote in massachusetts for fifteen months including on two federal elections where the two state officials the attorney general in the sector of the commonwealth refused to investigate but you know i think there's a question of his honesty we know he was not living in his son's unfinished basement so you know i'm hoping someone else will pick it up i've talked to some voting fraud experts but nothing's really transpired well and george herbert walker bush for many years when he was living in maine kept as his official legal residence a an empty apartment in dallas so that he can file his taxes in texas which is a no income tax state in romney do something similar that new hampshire. well that's what we weren't sure and i never got the questions answered you know he said he lived in new hampshire he said he lived in california he then said he was living out of his son's basement but you know he kept his massachusetts residents as far as i could find out and we did a fair amount of research but then he end up buying this

so i'm reducing what is reported as massachusetts' expenditure by 50%. despite that you see a ramp up in spending. now one question is there is a ramp up. you can see that. is it because of the recession? for example in the 2001 episode, the recession caused the jump up in enrollment and spending. so is the latest ramp up a result of the same kind of thing? is it because of the recession or is it because of romneycare? you can get some idea if you look at all the surrounding states vermont, connecticut, new hampshire and maine. which are in the same region. but from vermont, new hampshire and maine, both the lines eventually decline and they show no secular increase or consistent increase over the 2000 decade as is the case with massachusetts. there is an increase in connecticut, but i went down to the weeds and saw there in their budget reports the increase in the red line in 2009-2010 is because of the recession, because revenues and the size of the general fund reduce considerably, which is why the ratio of the medicaid spending to the total budget we

welcome form massachusetts.. where he is known best, we are winning by 72%. [cheers and applause] three wins tonight and counting. we have 10 states to thank people for. >> and there will be more presidential contests. >> three wins tonight and going. in alaska, by the way, they have not even caucused yet, but we are going to thank them anyway. the lieutenant governor, the senator, in georgia, and others, thank you. in idaho, the senator, frank van der sloot, and in north dakota, a thank you to the senator. in ohio, the senator, a family, eddie crawford, and honorary donald trump. [cheers and applause] >> he was on the radio for us all of the time in ohio. in oklahoma, thank you to fred and harold and others. in tennessee, the governor, senator alexander, and the commissioner. in vermont, darcy johnson, and the state senators. thank you. more states, guys, thank you. in virginia, a big thank-you to governor bob mcdonnell. we love him. [cheers and applause] also, our wonderful friend, and eric cantor. thank you f

in massachusetts it is pretty comparable and in massachusetts almost everyone complies with the mandate. the truth is americans are pretty law-abiding people. for example a massively under sheet on our taxes. relative to the amount of cheating on taxes to cheat a ton more than we do. we massively under cheat on our taxes. we are pretty law-abiding people and if we have a mandate in place with a penalty that is real, which this does, by and large people comply. but many won't. the congressional budget office that this bill will cover 60% of the uninsured in america. unfortunately undocumented immigrants are completely left out of this bill. as a political decision made right at the start of there's nothing to be done about that. second is people exempt from the mandate because what we want to bring people in, we don't want to penalize people who can afford it. if you pay what it did during chimeric sand. the third is people who won't comply and will be millions of people who don't comply. the point is as long as you get enough people in a system that will keep costs down and that is good

, the former governor of massachusetts, wins in massachusetts. massachusetts, 38 delegates at stake. we also project his win in massachusetts, his home state will be larger than newt gingrich's win in georgia. newt gingrich's home state. we are not yet able to make a projection in oklahoma. we are not yet able to make a projection in tennessee, but we can share with you the exit poll information we have on all three of these states. let's start in oklahoma. first, early exit polls in oklahoma, what people told us as they emerged from the polling booths. in oklahoma, a key state on this evening, these are the exit poll results, look at this. 38% for rick santorum, good news for santorum, 25% for mitt romney, 24% for newt gingrich, 12% in the exit poll for ron paul. let's look at tennessee. these are the exit poll results in tennessee, important numbers, once again, santorum ahead in tennessee with 35%, according to the exit poll, romney, 28%, gingrich, 23%, 11% for ron paul. let's look at massachusetts. we do project romney the winner of his home

it was based on and inspired by massachusetts. have happened if we didn't succeed in massachusetts. >> you follow the literature on health care reform and health care policy closely. in a lot of cases you are the literature in that. and you live in massachusetts. so i know you have a dog in this fight. tell me in your opinion, is romneycare working? do you think that is a fair read that it has been a moderately successful program. >> reporter: the goal of romneycare was twofold, cover uninsured citizens and we covered two-thirds of citizens. the insurance rate is 2 down 2% which is european levels and the second was to fix a broken or nongroup insurance market n. that market since we passed this law we have lowered premiums by 50% relative to national trend. we have done this with broad public support. so, yes, it set goels and it achieved them. >> toward the end of romney's op-ed he said the federal government can do what states cannot. that there is a role for them and realign incentives. does reform care do this and take that a

but massachusetts and his governorship in massachusetts, what he did there with health care reform is going to come back and haunt him, not just tonight but moving forward. the biggest for the conservative base has been for what's been revealed over the past week. an op ed he wrote for the "usa today." statements he made to human events back in 2006. a "meet the press" appearance back in 2009 where he very clearly called for a national individual mandate. the fact that mitt romney is going to put it away as he finds himself compromised on the right with the single issue that a lot of conservatives believe over the past two and a half years would define the 2012 race. that has now effectively been taken off the table. the obama team knows it and mitt romney's team know it is. so here we are, chris, tonight, we finally get to a point, i believe, where you have a long list of republican wanna bees starting with sarah palin and donald trump and michele bachmann and rick perry and herman cain and newt gingrich. all of these, and rick santorum of course. all of these people had one thing go

as a businessman, as the governor of massachusetts and president. and i spectfully suggest consistently wrong. when he was ceo of bain capital, bain capital closed down two factories in south florida that made medical devices. moving the production to germany. they shut down a plant in south carolina and another one in rhode island that made photo albums and picture frames and outsourced production overseas. i'mmitt, thanks for the memories. as governor massachusetts, he repeatedly slashed funding for workforce manufacturing, specifically. and despite the fact that millions of taxpayer dollars were flowing to companies outsourcing state overseas call centers, he vetoed a bill passed by the massachusetts legislature that would have stopped the state from outsourcing contracts overseas. state contracts.it. pass mass taxpayer with with a question -- this is how it worked -- with a question about massachusetts state services. picks up the phone, dials anmbe somebody in the massachusetts government to get an answer to their question. and instead he or sh

and massachusetts, santorum has the green states, north dakota, oklahoma, tennessee gingrich won his adoptive state of georgia more now from foxs doug luzader on cap till hill. >> -- capitol hill. >> mitt romney did what he needed to do but this is not a resounding super tuesday victory, so the long slog continues. >>> most of america, together let's fight for the america we love. >> a call for unity but that still seems to be the missing element for mitt romney's campaign overall he picked up six super tuesday states massachusetts vermont, virginia idaho, alaska and the most watched race of the night ohio his win there came with the barest of margins just one point over rick santorum, despite flooding the state with money and santorum laid claim to three states last night tennessee, oklahoma, and north dakota. >> we have won in the west, the midwest and south and we are ready to win across this

for massachusetts it's crushing massachusetts. >> wouldn't it be nice if a company as phenomenally successful as apple say we are taking the lead here? because they're creative geniuses. i love all their products. i don't like the fact they employ so many more people outside of america than in it. >> listen, that'd be great if they would come back. you need to make it competitive. you need to create an environment to hire and grow not only in massachusetts but throughout this country. and when you're paying a 35% corporate tax rate compared to ireland on 12% and the lower cost of health care and unemployment and energy. they have an obligation to their stockholders. i'd love them to come back. amen. bring them. come to massachusetts. >> senator, we are in agreement. come back again. >> well done. that's it. >> that's it. >> that was easy. >> you have so much more to say, right? >> i do. >> that was easy? senator scott brown, thank you very much. >>> coming up, is america's culture war distracting from the real issues of this campaign? now i bring in the new york time's frank bruney for his as

maybe a little massachusetts sharing there, let's call it that.eanwhile, continues his beef with the american porn industry. yesterday on cnn he argued porn causes brain damage in adults and children and he ripped the obama administration on the department of justice for not properly enforces laws on the books to stop illegal pornography. >> do you honestly believe there are people in the department of justice who favor pornography over family and childreny. >> you have to look -- the proof is in the prosecution. under the bush administration, pornographers were prosecuted more than under the obama administration. you draw your conclusion. >> what's yours? >> my conclusion is they have not put a priority on prosecuting these cases and in doing so, they are exposing children to tremendous amount of harm. >> there you witt. joanna angel wasn't going to take this lying down. she appeared in numberous adult films. her reaction to mr. santorum. "pornographers aren't trying to hurt anyone. i thish people would understand we struggle with the same proble

as governor of massachusetts, he instituted romney care which mandated every person in massachusetts buy health care. which mandated an insurance policy that everyone has to have to get four choices. which mandated fines if you didn't buy insurance. which taxed businesses. and of course used your taxpayer dollars through medicaid to pay for half of it. it was the model that barack obama used. how do we know that? just look at the two bills and listen to president obama. he said he listened and watched what went on in massachusetts. with the romney kennedy health care bill. and, yes, ted kennedy when mitt romney signed that bill was standing right behind him applauding. now, any time you have ted kennedy standing behind you applauding something, you know this is not a freedom bill. [applause] there's governor romney in the health care debate advocated not for the other states but for the federal government to adopt. and then during the debates he said i never did it. until we found out yes he did do it again and again. why? why would the republican party even contemplate on this most

cbs news projects mitt romney has won his home state of massachusetts. he also takes the state next door, vermont, and romney gets another "v" for victory in virginia. only he and ron paul were on the ballot there. newt gingrich wins his home state of georgia, so the lights stay on in his campaign. we estimate rick santorum is leading in oklahoma and he has a small lead as well in tennessee. and in the most closely watched race tonight, romney and santorum are locked in a very close race in ohio. we have a team of campaign 2012 correspondents covering super tuesday. first we'll go to jan crawford with the romney campaign in boston. jan? >> reporter: well, scott, after spending most of the past week battling it out in that key state of ohio, romney arrived here this afternoon in his home state of massachusetts and he sounded optimistic when he talked to reporters about his expectations for tonight. >> i'm hoping for a good win here in massachusetts and what happens elsewhere i don't know. but i think we'll pick up a lot of delegates and this is a process

mitt romney votÓ en massachusetts estado que llama su hogar.upo de activistas del dream ar acto. >>> loretamos porque dijo que corvette ray al dream act si fuera presidente. >>> massachusetts es uno de los 10 estados de sÚper martes, virginia, tennessee ohio y georgia los premios mayores pero la votaciÓn ha sido a cuenta gotas. >>> no me convence mucho romney por la historia que tiene aquÍ en massachusetts cuando estaba aquÍ pero, el otro tampoco me convence. >>> 3 de los 4 precandidatos usaron sus Últimas hora para criticar a obama, ron paul espero resultados de sÚper martes en idaho. >>> gingrich estÁ en georgia, estado con mayor nÚmero de delgados y segÚn las encuestas le darÁ la victoria. >>> con este comercial dice planea su regreso victorioso, aunque no se espera que hoy ningÚn gane la nominaciÓn algo nociÓn dicen ex el que mÁs delgados acumule tendrÁ la tarea de de ganar obama en noviembre. >>> tenemos y como republicanos ten nos la responsabilidad de ofrecer nuevas ideass para lo problemas que nuestro paÍs enfrenta porque es lo que va a

people of massachusetts and republicans in massachusetts clearly approve of. he had a huge victory tonight. he is going to take every delegate from the state of massachusetts, his home state. so, you know, in the general election, we need a republican candidate that can stand up to barack obama that, can talk about health care that, can talk -- >> but, robert, what about the southern states? you know, rick drick well tonight, as well in the southern states. what do you expect -- what can mitt romney do to really get those voters to believe in him and his plan, especially with the vanish issues that face -- with the issues that face them? >> well, it's a good question. and i think we have to recognize and i don't think the media's pointed this out, we have two regional candidates. we have senator santorum, who has had wins in the midwest and the plains states and the border states in one area. andee have newt gingrich who has run as a favorite son in georgia and a next door neighbor in south carolina and has two victories in an area where he served 20 years in

you can't under emphasize how liberal vermont is as compared to massachusetts and like massachusetts in new england. they are by far and away the most liberal states even among republicans on the east coast and arguably in the country. >> shepard: carl cammeron with us. we will be going to him throughout the night as our coverage continues. moments from now ohio's polls will close. one of the biggest prizes of this super tuesday arguably the most important with more than 60 delegates up for grabs, and the most closely watched contest of the night. recent surveys have shown a very tight race between rick santorum and mitt romney. the polls close in four and a half minutes. and fox news will have live coverage. will there be a decision from the fox news decision desk in four minutes and 24 seconds? we'll know a quick commercial break. this is america's election headquarters. special super tuesday coverage on "the fox report." america's choice for news and information. change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe pr