The Massachusetts Health Reform: Assessing Its Significance and Progress

Publication Date: September 2007

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Edmund F. Haislmaier

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Health care; consumer-centered health care; Health Insurance; Massachusetts

Type: Speech

Coverage: Massachusetts

Abstract:

Massachusetts has committed to restructuring its health system around the principle that individual consumers, not employers or government, should be the key decision-makers and owners of insurance in the health care system. That is a very significant shift in the health policy debate, and it is worth replicating elsewhere the core design elements that effect such a profound change.