In 2006, Massachusetts passed a reform that required individuals to purchase health insurance and provided subsidized health insurance to low-income individuals. The US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was modeled after this reform, making Massachusetts an ideal place to look at potential outcomes from the ACA. Postreform, the proportion of the health-insured population in Massa...

Most existing work on the demand for health insurance focuses on employees' decisions to enroll in employer-provided plans. Yet any attempt to achieve universal coverage must focus on the uninsured, the vast majority of whom are not offered employer-sponsored insurance. In the summer of 2008, we conducted a survey experiment to assess the willingness to pay for a health plan among a large sampl...

When employees without group health insurance buy individual coverage, they do so using after-tax income--costing them from 20% to 50% more than others pay for equivalent coverage. Prior to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), several states promoted a potential solution that would allow employees to buy individual insurance through tax-sheltered payroll deduct...

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) provides consultation and support services to the University community on matters related to environmental and occupational health and safety as well as environmental protection. The services include monitoring compliance to legislative requirements, training, incident investigations and developing health and safety related policies and programs. EHS provid...

Weaknesses in social protection and risk management systems within workplaces and in the wider public health environment and weak investment in health insurance and health services shift a significant share of the burden of production risks onto worker communities and under-funded public services. Inequality has been constructed by powerful economic and political interests and by weak policies ...

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) provides consultation and support services to the University community on matters related to environmental and occupational health and safety as well as environmental protection. The services include monitoring compliance to legislative requirements, training, incident investigations and developing health and safety related policies and programs. EHS provid...

In the individual organization level, it is quite usual to distribute information technology into the basic infrastructure and to the applications resting on it. This kind of thinking is not so well developed in the national level, even though we there too clearly identify several kinds of infrastructures, such as those connected with traffic, waste management, education, power and energy suppl...

We discuss and evaluate the Multi-State Plan (MSP) Program, a provision of the Affordable Care Act that has not been the subject of much debate as yet. The MSP Program provides the Office of Personnel Management with new authority to negotiate and implement multistate insurance plans on all health insurance exchanges within the United States. We raise the concern that the MSP Program may lead t...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will have a profound influence on health care in the United States, including how we conduct cancer research and cancer care delivery. For this reason, oncologists and researchers must be intimately involved in the implementation and interpretation of this important legislation. A major goal of the Act is to improve access to affordable, qu...

A SAFETY, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL and risk management professionals are stakeholders in issues involving safety, health and environmental protection. The insurance industry, in particular, is a major participant in the modern safety movement. As such, it exerts substantial influence on SH&E protection and regulatory compliance in various industrial, nonindustrial and commercial areas (including b...