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Category: Massachusetts Reform
The Complexities of Coverage and Access
Public insurance must be expanded, but coverage does not equal accessibility Continue Reading …
Looking to Massachusetts for Answers
in 2006 served as a model for the (ACA), and many policy experts are closely following the state to estimate what we can expect with the ACA. One important question to policymakers and the public is whether the ACA will Continue Reading …
Double Jeopardy and the Individual Mandate
Although studies exist that tout the benefits of the individual mandate on health care costs, data is lacking on how it affects costs for traumatically injured patients. The national costs of treating traumatically injured patients from EMS pickup to trauma Continue Reading …
Does Health Insurance Help?
While it has been estimated that 45,000 Americans perish unnecessarily each year due to lack of health insurance, there has been some mixed evidence about the mortality benefit of expanding coverage, particularly Medicaid. A study in Oregon showed no clear Continue Reading …
Back of the Envelope
Recently there have been quite few notable* “back-of-the-envelope” calculations. The included one which estimated how much expanding Medicaid would increase emergency care spending: A back-of-the-envelope calculation, using $435 as the average cost of an emergency department visit, suggests that Medicaid increases annual Continue Reading …