Tag: healthcare
The brief’s key findings are: Numerous studies have examined the impact of Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 health care reform, the basis for the national Affordable Care Act. The results suggest that the Massachusetts reform has largely succeeded by: reducing uninsurance rates; improving health care access and health outcomes; and inducing more firms to offer coverage, without…
Enrollment in the Medicare Advantage plans that private insurers offer as an alternative to traditional Medicare coverage has more than doubled over the past decade, the Kaiser Foundation reports. The share of the Medicare population enrolled in these private plans is 30 percent, up from 13 percent in 2005, the non-profit foundation said. The reason…
