Brief A Comment on "The Massachusetts Health Plan - Much Pain, Little Gain"
Sharon K. Long
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The Cato Institute recently released a study of health reform in Massachusetts by Aaron Yelowitz and Michael F. Cannon, entitled "The Massachusetts Health Plan: Much Pain, Little Gain." That study reports fewer gains in health insurance coverage and higher costs than have been reported by earlier studies. As the Urban Institute has done a substantial amount of research on health reform in Massachusetts, we have received a number of requests to reconcile the findings on health insurance coverage from the Cato study with the findings from earlier work. This paper is a response to those requests.
Research Areas Health and health care
Tags Health insurance Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program  State health care reform
Policy Centers Health Policy Center