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Title: Not Making the Grade: Lessons Learned from the Massachusetts Student Health Insurance Mandate
Copyright Date: May 2007
Pages: 34
Authors:Mark Rukavina, Carol Pryor, and Stacey Beberman, The Access Project; Stephen D'Amato
Description: In 2006, Massachusetts received national attention for enacting a bill designed to ensure that nearly all state residents have health insurance. However, the state actually implemented an individual mandate once before. This law included a requirement that all students enrolled at least three-quarters time in an institution of higher learning in the state have health insurance. This "student mandate" still remains in effect. The purpose of this report is to examine the student health insurance mandate to see how effective it has been in achieving its goal. This is important in and of itself, because students with access to insurance through their schools will not be eligible to purchase the subsidized plans that the state is making available to lower income people under the new individual mandate.
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