How Did Health Care Reform in Massachusetts Impact Insurance Premiums?
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Abstract
It is widely recognized that the 2006 Massachusetts health reforms served as a blueprint for national reform under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). As such, there is interest in using the Massachusetts experience to understand how insurance premiums might change under the ACA. In this paper, we analyze changes in private insurance premiums in Massachusetts between 2002 and 2010. In contrast to earlier estimates from Massachusetts (Cogan, Hubbard and Kessler 2010), we find no statistical evidence of changes in group premiums. By contrast, we find large reductions in non-group premiums in Massachusetts relative to the rest of the U.S.Citation
Graves, John A., and Jonathan Gruber. 2012. "How Did Health Care Reform in Massachusetts Impact Insurance Premiums?" American Economic Review, 102 (3): 508-13. DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.508JEL Classification
- G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies
- H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
- I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health