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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.

This study analyzes data from hospitals in six states, including Massachusetts, to compare the cost and quality of secondary care for under-65, privately insured patients in Academic Health Centers (AHCs) and non-AHC or community hospitals. Six measures of clinical quality of care...

Author: Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. This report examines the Massachusetts health care system during the tumultuous period from the late 1980s to the close of the 1990s. This timeframe begins with the attempt in 1988 to become the first state in the...