Significant decline in deaths after Massachusetts’ health reform
Findings offer insights into population-level health effects that could occur under Affordable Care Act For immediate release: Monday, May 5, 2014 Boston, MA — In the first four years after Massachusetts instituted comprehensive health reform in 2006, mortality…
Impact of ACA on health plan cancellations
Despite the public outcry when as many as 4.7 million people were estimated to have received cancellation notices about their private, non-employment-based health insurance plans last fall when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was launched, this market was…
ACA this week - Do enrollment targets matter?
March, 2014 – Although the number of people signing up for health care through the federal and state marketplaces is currently behind the administration’s target, Benjamin Sommers, professor of health policy and economics at Harvard T.H. Chan School…
ACA this week - Ben Sommers
Will low-income Americans migrate to obtain Medicaid? Learn more in a new weekly series from the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health. Visit HSPH's Affordable Care Act page for more ACA coverage.
HSPH experts comment on Affordable Care Act
January 9, 2014 -- Throughout the legal and political wranglings over the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—the landmark health care reform law passed in 2010—Harvard School of Public Health researchers have been contributing to the national conversation on the…
People lacking insurance not likely to migrate to obtain Medicaid coverage
States choosing Medicaid expansion shouldn’t expect costly influx of individuals from states not expanding coverage Other studies examine accountable care organizations and communication-and-resolution programs For immediate release: Monday, January 6, 2014 Boston, MA — Amidst the patchwork nature…
Government shutdown and the ACA
The acrimonious politics surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, led to a government shutdown on October 1, 2013—the day the ACA’s health exchanges debuted. But [[Robert Blendon]], Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and professor…
Stuck between health and immigration reform
Perspective article by HSPH's Benjamin Sommers, New England Journal of Medicine, August 15, 2013
Will they or won’t they? Examining state Medicaid expansion
In June 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare’s mandated Medicaid expansion for low-income Americans should be optional for states. Since then, health policy experts have been paying close attention to how individual states are proceeding with the…
Medicaid expansion faces challenges as January 1 deadline looms
July 24, 2013 — With just months remaining before the January 1, 2014 rollout of changes to the Medicaid program that will expand health care coverage to as many as 10-20 million Americans, substantial implementation challenges remain —…
