claim: "health insurance is more expensive in massachusetts than anywhere else in the country."
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: oct 9, 2014 ... these tools are not perfect, but they are unlike anything else in the country. while  a few states are moving toward more health care price transparency, none have  gone as far as massachusetts to make the information accessible to consumers.  tufts health plan director of commercial product strategy ...
evidence_2: sep 13, 2017 ... the final assessment for health spending in 2016 will be released a year from  now. comparable data for the rest of the country is not yet available, but altman  says it appears that health care spending in massachusetts continues to grow  more slowly than the nation as a whole. "over the last several years, ...
evidence_3: feb 5, 2017 ... massachusetts is the sixth-most-expensive state when it comes to employer- based health insurance, according to an analysis by the kaiser family ... in 2016  named boston the nation's top city for income inequality, meaning the gulf  between the haves and have-nots here is wider than it is anywhere else.
evidence_4: jan 20, 2016 ... 1 worst state for health insurance costs, these are the states where residents pay  more for coverage. .... health insurance plans, some plans stood out as offering  higher value while charging lower premiums — the lowest is less than half of the  cost of the most expensive health plan identified in this study.
evidence_5: here, most families with more than 100 percent fpl were found to have some  funds remaining that could be used for health insurance (gruber 2007). ....  between 2007 and 2008: the 2007 median income in massachusetts, january  2008's premiums for the least expensive health plans available through the  connector, fpl ...