Ray and Joe discuss Dirigo and the fact that it is still on the books and hasn’t been repealed. We were told that Dirigo would insure 130,000 uninsured Mainers in five years and 57,000 in the first year alone. We were told that the more people that were enrolled in the program, the more savings we would see in health care costs and health insurance premiums. Dirigo was also going to “provide competition” with its subsidized DirigoChoice insurance. Finally, Dirigo was supposed to “stabilize” the insurance market and health insurance premiums. But that was not the reality. DirigoChoice never insured more than 15,000 people at any one time. There were no real “savings to the system”.