TTU researchers’ Romneycare results now available in Health Care Management Review
June 28, 2012
News Medical-With the U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - informally known as Obamacare - two Texas Tech University researchers and a former colleague have published research that shows a similar plan implemented by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts did not work well for hospital productivity in the short term.
With the U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - informally known as Obamacare - two Texas Tech University researchers and a former colleague have published research that shows a similar plan implemented by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts did not work well for hospital productivity in the short term.
"Mandatory Insurance Coverage and Hospital Productivity in Massachusetts: Bending the Curve?" co-authored by Mark Thompson, associate professor; Timothy Huerta, assistant professor and director of the Center for Health Innovation, Education, and Research; and Eric Ford, Forsythe Medical Center Distinguished Professor of Health Care, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is now available here, published ahead of print as a PDF in Health Care Management Review.