Vermont legislators are considering the possibility of creating the nation’s first single-payer health insurance system to control health care costs.

Okay, so now the portion of Obamacare that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance has been struck down by a federal judge in Virginia. But what now?

Two reports – one prepared for two Maryland insurance industry trade groups and the other for a general agency operating in the state – reach a similar conclusion: that the Maryland system for delivering health insurance works better than the Massachusetts health exchange.