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The federal health reform law is only the starting point for achieving health care access for all Americans. Many states are already moving forward, not only on implementing the basic provisions of the Affordable Care Act in their states, but are also planning how to build on its framework to further expand coverage and rein in costs for their residents. The following are a few models of implementation and comprehensive reform underway.

As this Dispatch will outline, their arguments fail on multiple grounds:

First, conservative constitutional history is dead wrong. The progressive vision of collaborative federalism between federal and state governments clearly reflects the “original intent” of the Constitution’s creators — including those who promoted the Constitutional Amendments enacted throughout our history.
Second, conservative leaders are constitutional hypocrites, talking about “states rights” even as they support federal laws that restrict state authority in order to protect corporate special interests.
Finally, unlike conservatives, progressives practice real respect for state authority by promoting and supporting state innovation and flexibility, a far more compelling practice of federalism than the rigid and false constitutional doctrine promoted by the right wing.

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