A nonprofit health insurer says the Massachusetts health reform program appears to be meeting creators' goals.
Robert Seifert and Paul Swoboda, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, prepared an analysis of the reform program, which includes individual and employer health coverage requirements, on behalf of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston.
Massachusetts Blue and many other Massachusetts carriers supported the creation of the reform program.
Some critics have complained about increasing rates and shortages of primary care physician care since the program began to take effect, but the researchers who prepared the analysis for Massachusetts Blue say the program has met its goals of treating stakeholders fairly and reducing spending on the uninsured.