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Selection in Massachusetts' Commonwealth Care Program: Lessons for State Basic Health Plans
Publication Year: 2012

In this brief, SHARE grantee Deborah Chollet and her co-authors Allison Barrett and Amy Lischko analyze risk selection over time in Massachusetts' CommonWealth Care program, which serves low-income adults ineligible for Medicaid, much like a Basic Health Plan under the ACA.  Based on their findings, the authors offer lessons for other states considering whether to form a Basic Health Plan, looking at questions of program design, impacts on the commercial market, and financing and operations.

National Reform: What Can We Learn from Evaluations of Massachusetts?
Publication Year: 2011

In this brief, SHARE grantee Sharon Long and her research team provide a meta-analysis of research on Massachusett's health reform and an assessment of what these findings mean for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and for the evaluation of the ACA's impacts.  In particular, they discuss findings from the range of studies that examine the effects of Massachusetts' health reform on non-elderly adults, focusing on work that has evaluated insurance coverage; health care access and use; and the affordability of care.