Using CHIA’s 2017 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey, four affordability measures were examined including problems paying family medical bills, family medical debt, unmet health care needs due to cost, and high out-of-pocket health care spending.
"This is fundamentally a consumer protection [bill]," said Justin Lowe, legal director of Health Law Advocates... The payment limits would not, technically, set the price for a drug but instead cap what Massachusetts consumers or insurers pay for it.
Using CHIA’s 2017 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey, four affordability measures were examined including problems paying family medical bills, family medical debt, unmet health care needs due to cost, and high out-of-pocket health care spending.
"This is fundamentally a consumer protection [bill]," said Justin Lowe, legal director of Health Law Advocates... The payment limits would not, technically, set the price for a drug but instead cap what Massachusetts consumers or insurers pay for it.