Over the past year, the Republican Congress failed to enact an attractive alternative to the Affordable Care Act, with the Congressional Budget Office estimating its various proposals as leaving between 17 and 23 million more individuals uninsured. Yet, the healthcare reform signed into law by Mitt Romney as governor of Massachusetts covered more people than under the ACA, despite spending less in public funds.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the proportion of the Massachusetts population that was uninsured actually rose from 3.6 percent in 2013 to 4.4 percent in 2014, when Obamacare replaced Romneycare – even though the state’s economy was growing robustly and the ACA expanded the share of the state’s population enrolled in Medicaid jumped from 19.4 percent to 23.6 percent.