Foundation, offers his summer reading list on Massachusetts health
care reform. His intro:
Hopefully, many of you are relaxing this month at one of the nation's
real beaches. I'm spending most of August in the backyard, maybe with
my feet in an inflatable pool. While the closest I'll get to Cape Cod
is the potato chips I'm eating, Massachusetts is on my mind. I'm sure
when President Obama arrives on Martha's Vineyard later this month
he'll get plenty of advice from the locals on how Massachusetts
managed to pass health reform and whether it's working or not.
There's a lot to be learned from Massachusetts – the first state to
pass comprehensive health care reform and guarantee insurance coverage
for all its residents. With that in mind, the following are a few
select reports about what happened in Massachusetts (and how it
happened… and why it happened … and what it means … that offer
particularly salient lessons).
One key element I would add to this reading list involves a peek into
the future of Massachusetts health care reform: the global payment
initiative that has been greenlighted by the Special Commission on the
Health Care Payment System established under part 2 of the
Massachusetts health care reform law, which could result in
wide-ranging payment reform in Massachusetts being phased in over a
five-year period.
Since bending the cost curve will be a key component of any successful
health reform, this is another Massachusetts development to be sure to
watch.
David Harlow
The Harlow Group LLC
Health Care Law and Consulting
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