Financing Massachusetts Reform

The latest data and reports on the financing of health care reform, and details on the Medicaid waivers that govern much of the government's share of financing for reform.

Shared Responsibility, Government, Business, and Individuals: Who Pays What for Health Reform?
BCBS of Massachusetts Foundation report by Robert Seifert and Paul Swoboda, on the distribution of spending for health coverage, comparing data from 2005, the year before passage of Massachusetts health reform, and 2007, a year into the law’s implementation. (March 2009)

Massachusetts Health Reform: The Myth of Uncontrollable Costs
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation analysis of state spending for the first three years of Massachusetts health reform, concluding that the cost of implementation was consistent with initial projections. (May 2009)

Massachusetts Health Care Reform–Near Universal Coverage at What Cost?
Financial assessment and framing of health reform from Secretary JudyAnn Bigby and Joel Weissman of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. (November 2009)

The MassHealth Waiver 2009-2011 and Beyond
Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute report by Stephanie Anthony, Robert Seifert, and Jean Sullivan, on the history and current status of the federal Medicaid waiver, which provides the programmatic and financial underpinning of Massachusetts health reform. (February 2009)

MassHealth Medicaid Waiver
Detailed information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the MassHealth waiver, including a Massachusetts MassHealth Fact Sheet.

MassHealth and Health Care Reform
State documents on the Medicaid Waiver for MassHealth, which covers more than one million low-income children, families, seniors, and people with disabilities.