Subsidized health care for low income families is working in Massachusetts

In Massachusetts they have found that their new law, one which offers subsidized health care insurance programs to lower income residents, is working exactly as they planned.

The law was created to reduce the amount of people who were showing up at hospital emergency rooms for routine care that could be provided easier through family physicians and non-emergency care.

When making the law they thought that it made sense to offer health care to these people, which frees up hospitals for more emergency-based care and provides better care to those who were using emergency rooms as their main health care.

A report by the Massachusetts Hospital Association shows that the plan is working. Over the last three years, there has been a 28 percent increase in enrollment in these subsidized programs, there has also been a 28 percent decline in non-emergency type visits to hospital emergency rooms.

Over 300,000 people have been given health care in Massachusetts, with 600,000 people being the number they are shooting for.

With this law working so well, let’s hope that other states will consider giving low income families subsidized health care, which not only frees up hospitals, but provides everyone with the specialized care they need and deserve.







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