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Health Reform Program -- Alan Sager -- Boston University School of Public Health

Affordable high-quality health care for all Americans is the easiest problem to fix in the United States

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Massachusetts Health Reform

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The Sky Is Falling - The Mass. Medical Society Reports on the "Physician Shortage," 1988

Prices of Equitable Access - the 1988 Massachusetts Universal Health Care Law

Sager, Hiam, and Socolar, Promise and Performance - the 1988 Massachusetts Universal Health Care Law, 1989

Sager and Socolar, Financially Distressed Hospitals Need Targeted Relief, 2000

Minority Report to Governor's Health Care Task Force, 2002

Sager and Socolar, Too Many Local Hospitals on Life Support, 2002

Sager, Socolar, Health Care Myths, Realities, 2005

Sager, Socolar, and Hiam, The World's Most Expensive Hospitals, 1991

Sager, Socolar, $74 Billion Is Enough, 2009

Sager, Socolar, Medicaid Cuts - A Shot in the Foot, 1991

Sager, Socolar, Hiam, A Medical Meltdown Is Looming in the Bay State, 1993

Sager, Socolar, Hiam, Public Not Served by MGH - Brigham Merger, 1994

Before It's Too Late - Why Hospital Closings Are a Problem, Not a Solution, 1997

Ban Additional For-profit Hospitals and HMOs, 1997

Sager and Socolar, Imprudent and Impatient--Too Many Mass. Hospitals Are Closing, 1997

Report Warns State to Protect Needed Hospitals, 1999

Letter to AG Coakley - Don't Approve Sale of 6 Caritas Christi Hospitals to Steward, 2010

Testimony on Massachusetts Determination of Need Regulations, 2016

State Needs to Learn Hard Lessons from Steward Debacle, 2024

State Could Have Prevented Closing of Steward Hospitals, 2024

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