Health Policy

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
New reforms under the Affordable Care Act begin to bring to an end some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry. These reforms will give Americans new rights and benefits, including helping more children get health coverage, ending lifetime and most annual limits on care, and giving patients access to recommended preventive services without cost-sharing. Read the full law.

Massachusetts Health Policy Forum
The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the health care system in the Common- wealth by convening forums and presenting the highest quality research to legislators, stakeholders and the public.

Visit their website at http://masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu/index.html

For Information on Massachusetts Healthcare Insurance Reform Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 of the Massachusetts General Court, An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care.
Go to http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2006/Chapter58 for a look at the law.