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May 17, 2017

Pioneer Experts Offer Contrasting Prescriptions For MA Healthcare

BOSTON - New policy briefs from Josh Archambault and Barbara Anthony, two senior fellows in healthcare at Pioneer Institute, offer differing prescriptions for how Massachusetts should navigate uncertainty in the healthcare market, as Congress debates the fate of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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September 6, 2016

Op-ed: Health fee pinches taxpayers

Read this op-ed in the Boston Herald (September 4, 2016). Sometimes the Affordable Care Act (ACA) seems like part of history. While headlines about implementation pains persist, many changes are taking place under the radar. One such change that has received almost no...
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August 31, 2016

New ACA-Related Medicaid Fee Will Cost MA $162M+ Over Next Decade

Read news coverage of this report in The Boston Globe. Health Insurer Provider Fee Will Cost Taxpayers $324 Million by 2025 BOSTON – Taxpayers will be saddled with over $320 million in additional costs in the next decade as a result of...
Healthcare
September 17, 2014

Study: $1B Price Tag for ACA Health Exchange & New Medicaid Program in Mass.

Study: $1 Billion Price Tag for ACA Health Exchange & New Medicaid Program in Massachusetts Over half due to two-year cost of switch to new ACA website at the Connector BOSTON – The cost of transitioning to an Affordable Care Act compliant health...
Healthcare
August 20, 2013

Will ACA Cause Rate Shock in Massachusetts? It Appears So, Small Biz To See Premiums Rise Up to 97%

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D) (Photo credit: Faith Ninivaggi/Washington Post) Conventional wisdom has held that the ACA impact on Massachusetts will be small. Some high profile academics have gone as far as to attack presidential candidates with colorful language if they suggest otherwise. Well,...
Healthcare
June 19, 2013

10 Questions About ACA/Obamacare Implementation in Massachusetts That Need to be Answered

1.      Why is Massachusetts giving the federal government a free pass to overtake the states right to regulate our insurance marketplace? For an example, see the ongoing saga over rating factors changes, under which 60% of small companies will experience premium increases....
Healthcare
April 8, 2013

Untold Story of Small Biz Delay under ACA, Just Déjà Vu from Massachusetts

The revelation that the Obama Administration will delay the roll out of the “choice option” for small Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has been credited with advocating for small business employee choice in the ACA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) business until 2015 came as...
Healthcare
March 21, 2013

Pioneer Requests Report That Predicts ACA’s "Extreme Premium Increases"

Pioneer Files Request for the Administration to Release Its Report on the Impact of The Federal Health Law on Massachusetts’ Small Businesses The report is known to indicate that the ACA will cause “extreme premium increases” for small businesses BOSTON – Today...
Healthcare
December 11, 2012

ACA Impact, Part 5: New $63 Per-Head Tax

The headline from the AP this morning Surprise: New Insurance Fee in Health Overhaul Law The fee will total $12 billion in 2014, $8 billion in 2015 and $5 billion in 2016. That means the per-head assessment would be smaller each year,...
Healthcare
October 12, 2012

The Great Experiment

The Great Experiment: The States, the Feds, and Your Healthcare is a six-author book published by Pioneer Institute in 2012, offering analysis of the federal health care law and state-led solutions to health care policy’s greatest challenges.