MTF participates in D.C. forum on business role in Massachusetts health reform; new report highlights business involvement.

The Foundation’s latest release, issued jointly with The Boston Foundation and Metropolitan Area Planning Council, summarizes the enormous success of the state’s municipal health insurance law on the one-year anniversary of its passage by the Legislature. First-year savings have now reached an…

Implementation of the 2011 municipal health reform law is vastly surpassing expectations as 102 Massachusetts communities have negotiated agreements with employees that will generate $117 million in first year savings, according to a new analysis released today by the Massachusetts Taxpayers…

Statement of Michael J. Widmer President, Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation on House Health Care Finance Committee Legislation   Chairman Walsh has worked extremely hard over the past year to master the intricacies of the state’s health care system.  He has been willing to listen to all…

Massachusetts has achieved near universal health care coverage with only modest additional costs to state taxpayers, according to a new study released today by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF).The report, Massachusetts Health Reform Spending, 2006-2011: An Update on the “Budget Buster”…

Massachusetts cities and towns have reached nearly $80 million in first-year savings from municipal health care reform and are on pace to exceed by far the initial estimate of $100 million, according to the most recent data compiled by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

Massachusetts cities and towns are on pace to exceed by far the initial estimate of $100 million in first-year savings under the new municipal health care reform law, according to data compiled by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

The average single family homeowner in 10 of the state’s most economically vulnerable cities would need to pay an astonishing $13,685 today or absorb a crippling 20 percent property tax hike over the next 30 years to subsidize billions in unfunded retiree health care liabilities, according to a new…

In their zeal to control health care costs, state lawmakers run the risk of causing serious damage to the health care sector, arguably the most important segment of the Massachusetts economy and certainly the most notable exception to the state’s dreadful job record over the past decade.

Dozens of communities across the state would lose the benefits of municipal health care reform under the Senate’s provision requiring that municipal contributions for retirees be the same as for active employees, according to a preliminary analysis by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. The…