On Call: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts
|
|
|
October 22, 2008
Nancy Turnbull, senior lecturer in health policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Associate Dean for Educational Programs at the Harvard School of Public Health
Student Moderator: Jana Brott, MPH student, Portland State University
In 2006, Massachusetts passed a law requiring almost all adults to have health insurance. Two years later, 439,000 residents are newly insured.
But not all the news is good — there’s a shortage of doctors to meet the high demand for primary care services, and some question whether the program is financially sustainable.
The nation is watching. What can other states learn from the big experiment in Massachusetts?
Read the transcript
Discuss this call with your peers
|
|
