Government Spending

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)