Two Years After Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform Only 4.0% of Residents Lack Health Insurance

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News After the State of Massachusetts instituted a mandatory health insurance policy for state residents in 2006, by the fall of 2008, the rate of uninsured state residents had dropped by 70%, from 13.0% in 2006 to 4.0% in 2008. There was no evidence that the expansion of publicly-subsidized health insurance coverage crowded out employer-sponsored health insurance. Once health insurance was required, for lower-income adults earning less than 300% the federal poverty line in 2006, the percentage of those without insurance dropped from 23.8% to 7 . . .