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What Health Care Reform Means for Immigrants: Comparing the Affordable Care Act and Massachusetts Health Reforms

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Tiffany D. Joseph
J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (1): 101–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3445632
Published: 01 February 2016
...Tiffany D. Joseph Abstract The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed to provide more affordable health coverage to Americans beginning in 2014. Modeled after the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform, the ACA includes an individual mandate, Medicaid expansion, and health...
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What Happens to the Women Who Fall Through the Cracks of Health Care Reform? Lessons from Massachusetts

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Amanda Dennis, Kelly Blanchard, Denisse Córdova, Britt Wahlin, Jill Clark ...
J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (2): 393–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-1966351
Published: 01 April 2013
...Amanda Dennis; Kelly Blanchard; Denisse Córdova; Britt Wahlin; Jill Clark; Karen Edlund; Jennifer McIntosh; Lenore Tsikitas We investigated the impact of Massachusetts health care reform on low-income women's experiences accessing insurance and health services, specifically reproductive health...
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Early Experience of a Safety Net Provider Reorganizing into an Accountable Care Organization

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Karen Hacker, Palmira Santos, Douglas Thompson, Somava S. Stout, Adriana Bearse ...
J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (4): 901–917.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2744284
Published: 01 August 2014
... embraced the concept of the accountable care organization to help improve quality and efficiency while addressing financial shortfalls. The experience of Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) in Massachusetts, where health care reform began six years ago, provides insight into the opportunities and challenges...
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Falling through the Coverage Cracks: How Documentation Status Minimizes Immigrants' Access to Health Care

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Tiffany D. Joseph
J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (5): 961–984.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3940495
Published: 01 October 2017
... under comprehensive health reform in the Boston metropolitan area. The article uses data from interviews conducted with a total of 153 immigrants, health care professionals, and immigrant and health advocacy organization employees under the Massachusetts and ACA health reforms. Findings indicate...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Payment Reform: Observations from Massachusetts

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Robert E. Mechanic
J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 743–762.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3620917
Published: 01 August 2016
...Robert E. Mechanic Abstract Policy makers and private health plans are expanding their efforts to implement new payment models that will encourage providers to improve quality and deliver health care more efficiently. Over the past five years, payment reforms have progressed faster in Massachusetts...
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The Politics of Universal Access: The Massachusetts Health Security Act of 1988

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Susan A. Goldberger
J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (4): 857–885.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-15-4-857
Published: 01 August 1990
... provide insurance. 880 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law of bargaining before the promise is fulfilled, the next round of system reform will come in the context of a state commitment to health care for all.47 Cone1usion The Massachusetts Health Security Act of 1988...
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The States and Health Care Reform: The Road Traveled and Lessons Learned from Seven That Took the Lead

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Pamela A. Paul-Shaheen
J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (2): 319–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-23-2-319
Published: 01 April 1998
...Pamela A. Paul-Shaheen During the past decade, an area of major policy activity among the states has been that of health care reform. As of May 1993, seven states—Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington—had progressed the furthest in enacting comprehensive...
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Translating Ideas into Actions: Entrepreneurial Leadership in State Health Care Reforms

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Thomas R. Oliver, Pamela Paul-Shaheen
J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (3): 721–789.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-22-3-721
Published: 01 June 1997
.... McDonough , John E. , Christie L Hager, and Brian Rosman. 1997 . Health Care Reform Stages a Comeback in Massachusetts. New England Journal of Medicine 336 (January): 148 -151. Meltsner , Arnold J. 1976 . Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy. Berkeley: University of California Press. Milward...
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The Long Shadow of the Past: Risk Pooling and the Political Development of Health Care Reform in the States

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Anthony S. Chen, Margaret Weir
J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (5): 679–716.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2009-022
Published: 01 October 2009
... of actuarial fairness. We illustrate our analysis with a brief comparison of Massachusetts and California, and we conclude with some thoughts on what our findings imply for the federal role in catalyzing health reform. Duke University Press 2009 Anderson, G. 1991 . All-Payer Rate Setting: Down...
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Editor's Note

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Colleen M. Grogan
J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (1): 1–2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3445583
Published: 01 February 2016
.... The same could be said for the article in our Report on Health Reform Implementation section, “What Health Care Reform Means for Immigrants: Comparing the Affordable Care Act and the Massachusetts Health Reforms,” by Tiffany Joseph. In this article, Joseph conducts a comparative case study on documentation...
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Mere Mortals: Overselling the Young Invincibles

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Deborah Levine, Jessica Mulligan
J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (2): 387–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3766781
Published: 01 April 2017
.... In the Massachusetts reforms, the young invincible population came to be viewed as a problem—and an opportunity. Jon Kingsdale, executive director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, explained it thusly: The uninsured in Massachusetts are disproportionately young, male, single, and healthy...
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Have the ACA's Exchanges Succeeded? It's Complicated

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David K. Jones, Sarah H. Gordon, Nicole Huberfeld
J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 661–676.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-8255577
Published: 01 August 2020
... Foundation said of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform—largely constructed around the first statewide insurance exchange—that governors and legislators would be “well advised to consider this basic model as a framework for health care reform in their own states.” Utah, one of the most conservative states...
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Contributors

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J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (6): 1067–1069.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-32-6-1067
Published: 01 December 2007
... that relate to health care access for poor people, racial and ethnic minorities, people with dis- Contributors  1069   abilities, and other disenfranchised groups. Recent law review publications include articles on Medicaid, Massachusetts health...
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Notes from the Laboratories of Democracy: State Government Enactments of Market and State-Based Health Insurance Reforms in the 1990s

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Charles Barrilleaux, Paul Brace
J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (4): 655–683.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2007-021
Published: 01 August 2007
... : 850 -858. Hall, M. A. 2000 . The Impact of Health Insurance Market Reforms on Market Competition. American Journal of Managed Care 6 : 57 -67. Haislmaier, E. F. 2006. The Significance of Massachusetts Health Reform. Heritage Foundation WebMemo 1035, April 11. www.heritage.org/Research...
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Crowding Out: Multiple Manifestations, Muddled Meanings

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Mark Schlesinger
J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (5): 851–864.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-1672736
Published: 01 October 2012
... Dahlen Heather . 2012 . “Massachusetts Health Reforms: Uninsurance Remains Low, Self-Reported Health Status Improves as State Prepares to Tackle Costs.” Health Affairs 31 ( 2 ): 444 – 51 . doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0653 . Mellström Carl Johannesson Magnus . 2008 . “Crowding...
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Closing Kynect and Restructuring Medicaid Threaten Kentucky's Health and Economy

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Charles B. Wright, Nathan L. Vanderford
J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (4): 719–737.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3856163
Published: 01 August 2017
... immigrants, visa holders, and short-term legal permanent residents were not eligible to obtain health insurance as a result of health care reform (Joseph 2016 ). Massachusetts expanded its state insurance marketplace to allow these individuals to purchase health insurance but does not make use of federal...
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You Can't Make Me Do It, but I Could Be Persuaded: A Federalism Perspective on the Affordable Care Act

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Simon F. Haeder, David L. Weimer
J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (2): 281–323.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2882219
Published: 01 April 2015
... programs, such as exemptions from various federal requirements, including guaranteed entitlements. Indeed, Massachusetts was able to use its 1115 waiver to implement state-based health reform. Waivers have also been used to turn the Rhode Island Medicaid program into a block grant (Cross-Call and Solomon...
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Pascal's Wager: Health Insurance Exchanges, Obamacare, and the Republican Dilemma

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David K. Jones, Katharine W. V. Bradley, Jonathan Oberlander
J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (1): 97–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2395190
Published: 01 February 2014
... the 1990s, including California, Texas, and Florida, though they produced mixed results and in some cases did not survive (Long and Marquis 2001 ; Wicks 2002 ). Then, in 2006, as part of its landmark reform law, Massachusetts established a health insurance “Connector” — open to the uninsured and smaller...
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The Impact of the ACA on Premiums: Evidence from the Self-Employed

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Bradley T. Heim, Gillian Hunter, Ithai Z. Lurie, Shanthi P. Ramnath
J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (5): 1061–1085.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3161248
Published: 01 October 2015
.... , Hubbard R. Glenn , and Kessler Daniel . 2010 . “ The Effect of Massachusetts' Health Reform on Employer-Sponsored Insurance Premiums .” Forum for Health Economic and Policy 13 , no. 2 : article 5. dx.doi.org/10.2202/1558-9544.1204 . Collins Sara R. , Doty Michelle M...
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Comment on Deborah Stone's “Single Payer—good Metaphor, Bad Politics”

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Kip Sullivan
J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (2): 277–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2009-052
Published: 01 April 2010
.... . . . 5. The Massachusetts Health Reform Act of 2006, which some see as a model for national reform, confirms the truth of the statement that any attempt to achieve universal coverage with- out cost containment will fail to achieve universal coverage. The law (which has no significant cost...
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