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Shared Responsibility, Government, Business, and Individuals: Who Pays What for Health Reform?

This report is the first assessment of how spending to insure hundreds of thousands of additional people in the Commonwealth is being shared. It finds that the overall distribution of spending on health insurance by employers, individuals, and government remained essentially the same between 2005, one year before passage of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law, and 2007, one year into the laws implementation.

The MassHealth Waiver: 2009-2011 ... and Beyond

On December 22, 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved Massachusetts' request to renew the MassHealth Section 1115 Research and Demonstration Waiver (Waiver) for an additional three years, through the end of state fiscal year 2011. The Waiver, which has been in place since 1997, authorizes critical federal funding for several health coverage programs for low-income individuals and for the Commonwealth's safety net health system for uninsured residents. It is the programmatic and financial underpinning of the state's health care reform law.

Philanthropy and Health Reform, 1982-2008

Community Catalyst report on the role that foundations and other philanthropic organizations played during more than two decades of health care reform efforts in Massachusetts. (January 2009)

Health Reform: Lessons from the Massachusetts Experience

This report summarizes the impact of health reform thus far and may be used as a point of reference for policy makers who are considering approaches to health reform elsewhere at either the state or national level. If the Massachusetts model continues to work, all or part of this model and its supporting principles may be useful in local or national health reform efforts.

Gov. Deval Patrick (8:49)

Governor Deval Patrick delivers his keynote speech at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation's annual summit.

House Speaker Sal DiMasi (18:51)

Then-House Speaker Sal DiMasi delivers his keynote speech at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation's annual summit.

Video for Foundation Summit

This video features three people who received health insurance coverage under the state's health care reform law. It was screened at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation's 2008 annual summit.