text_1: "After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law ""their mortality rate went down...it saved lives."
text_2: "Marsden said that after Massachusetts enacted its sweeping health care reform in 2006, its mortality rate dropped by at least 2.9 percent, ""saving lives."" His statement correctly summarizes a recent study finding the state’s death rate dropped by 3.2 percent among 20-64 year-olds. The decline was 2.9 percent greater than the average of a comparison group of 531 counties across the nation. But Marsden reaches a little when he says the results proved the health reforms ""saved lives."" Researchers believe that’s the case, but caution they could not establish a ""cause and effect"" between the lowered death rate and the health reforms. So Marsden’s statement is accurate, but needs a little clarification."