Urban Institute Study of Massachusetts Health Reform

The Urban Institute concluded in a study published on June 3 that Massachusetts reduced the percentage of working age adults without health coverage from 13 percent to 7 per cent in the first year of implementing its combination of Medicaid expansions, subsidized private coverage, and market reforms under the Chapter 58 provisions enacted in April 2006.  Some increases in preventive care, and no adverse impact on employer health coverage, were observed in the first year.

Tom Entrikin

Tom Entrikin is a PCG manager and former Medicaid policy specialist with the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).