Physicians' Views of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law — A Poll

In 2006, Massachusetts enacted the country's first law mandating near-universal health care coverage,1 and the state now has the lowest proportion of uninsured residents in the United States. The Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy estimated that only 2.7% of state residents remained uninsured as of spring 2009.2 National policymakers have turned to Massachusetts as a potential model for federal health care reform, and reform proposals recently put forward in Congress include elements from the Massachusetts plan, such as the individual mandate to buy insurance, public-program expansions, and a health insurance exchange.Despite the state's low percentage of . . .