Report from Massachusetts: employers largely support health care reform, and few signs of crowd-out appear |
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Authors: | Gabel Jon R Whitmore Heidi Pickreign Jeremy |
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Institution: | NORC, University of Chicago, Washington, DC, USA. Gabel-Jon@NORC.org |
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Abstract: | Based on a 2007 survey of 1,056 randomly selected Massachusetts firms, this paper presents findings about employers' attitudes about, knowledge of, and responses to recently enacted reform legislation. A majority of Massachusetts employers agree that all employers bear some responsibility for providing health benefits, firms not offering benefits should be required to pay a "fair share" contribution up to $295 annually per employee, and employers with ten or fewer employees should not be exempt from this requirement. Only 24 percent of employers with 3-50 workers are familiar with the Connector purchasing pool. About 3 percent of Massachusetts small employers intend to drop coverage, similar to national figures. |
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