What can Massachusetts teach us about national health insurance reform?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the most significant health policy legislation since Medicare in 1965. The need to address rising health care costs and the lack of health insurance coverage is widely accepted. Health care spending is approaching 17 percent of gross domestic...

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Published inJournal of policy analysis and management Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 177 - 178
Main Author Joyce, Theodore J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.12.2011
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
SeriesJournal of Policy Analysis and Management
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Change
Federal Legislation
Health Care Costs
Health Insurance
Massachusetts
State Government
Massachusetts
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Summary:The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the most significant health policy legislation since Medicare in 1965. The need to address rising health care costs and the lack of health insurance coverage is widely accepted. Health care spending is approaching 17 percent of gross domestic product and yet 45 million Americans remain uninsured. But how to address these issues remains highly contentious. The Massachusetts polity confronted the lack of universal health insurance coverage four years ago. Massachusetts now requires that all adult residents purchase affordable health insurance. The state set up a health insurance exchange for the purchase of non-group coverage and established a program to subsidize insurance for lower-income families. This article presents an exchange of views regarding implications of health care reform in Massachusetts on the likely impacts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Guest Editor Theodore J. Joyce organized the Point/Counterpoint in this issue. Ted is a Professor of Economics in Baruch College of the City University of New York, and a Research Associate of the NBER in the Health Economics Program. He also serves as the Academic Director of the Baruch/Mt. Sinai MBA Program in Health Care Administration and as a Research Associate of National Bureau of Economic Research. In addition to his regular duties as a co‐editor of the
we thank Ted for organizing this exchange regarding implications of health care reform in Massachusetts on the likely impacts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
ISSN:0276-8739
1520-6688
DOI:10.1002/pam.20555