Consumer Satisfaction with Health Insurance Coverage in Massachusetts

Massachusetts's 2006 comprehensive health reform initiative was the template for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, which is making wide-ranging changes to the health care system nationally. Like the Massachusetts 2006 reform, the ACA utilizes a Medicaid expansion option, subsidies for private insurance, a health insurance marketplace, insurance market reforms, requirements for employers, and an individual coverage mandate, among other things, in an effort to expand health insurance coverage for the nation There is early evidence of rapid gains in insurance coverage for the nation under the ACA [2-4], echoing the large gains in coverage in Massachusetts following its 2006 reform Subsequently, health insurance coverage in the Commonwealth has remained well above the national average For example, in 2013, 95.4 percent of all Massachusetts residents were estimated to be insured, while only 85.6 percent of residents nationwide were

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• Coverage, Access, and Affordability under Health Reform

  Open Access•Sharon K Long, Karen Stockley et al.•INQUIRY The Journal of Health…•2012

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