After the Mandates: Massachusetts Employers Continue to Support Health Reform as More Firms Offer Coverage
This paper examines employers’ views and responses to health care reform after employer and individual mandates went into effect in Massachusetts based on a spring 2008 survey of 1,003 randomly selected Massachusetts firms. The paper looks at the degree of crowd-out that occurred.
As plans for New York State health care reform circulate, there is concern that some plans will result in employers dropping private coverage and encourage people to take up public coverage, which would increase the cost of such programs. Studies like this can help New York State predict the level to which this phenomenon might occur.
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