mr. charisma.re five years on from that and the red sox are having a difficult year, thank you, bobby valentine, but this one state's pilot version of our national health reform law does not suck the way the red sox do this year. it has worked really well in massachusetts. the proportion of people who now have health insurance in massachusetts is 98%, 98% of people in the state are insured. that is the highest rate in the nation.ç nearly 100% of massachusetts' kids are insured. 90% of doctors in the state say the quality of care has improved since the reform law went into effect and massachusetts residents like it by a nearly 2-1 margin and even that poll was taken in the middle of the republican presidential primary when candidates were talking about how awful the massachusetts plan is because it's the same as what president obama did for the country, so even with a national political campaign where everybody's slagging off the massachusetts' health plan, a, it works, and, b, massachusetts likes