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Failure to Connect: The Massachusetts Plan for Individual Health Insurance
Weeks Leonard, Elizabeth
Weeks Leonard, Elizabeth
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Abstract
This article briefly describes the key features of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act, focusing particularly on the Connector. It then offers preliminary thoughts on the expected effect of that mechanism for creating quality, affordable health insurance products for individuals. Observers anticipate that commercial insurers will offer scant coverage and high-premium, high-deductible plans through the Connector, which coverage ultimately may be neither more affordable than products currently or more helpful to covering the cost of health care than no coverage at all. If the Connector fails to facilitate the individual insurance mandate, Massachusetts's promise of universal coverage may begin to unravel. Moreover, its usefulness as a model for other states proposing or considering similar risk-pooling mechanisms will be greatly diminished.
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2007-06
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University of Kansas School of Law
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State health insurance reform, Massachusetts plan, Universal coverage
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Elizabeth A. Weeks, Failure to Connect: The Massachusetts Plan for Individual Health Insurance, 55 University of Kansas Law Review 1283-1312 (2006-2007).