MHPF Highlights
Healthy Aging Forum Looks at Patient-Centered Care For Seniors
Forum Looks at Successes in MassHealth Pharmacy Program
MHPF in the News
Globe Gets It Backwards: National Health Reform Is Good For Massachusetts
Michael Doonan gives and update on Massachusetts Health Reform
Press Releases
Release 6.21.10
Report Confirms Massachusetts Will Realize Coverage Gains and Financial Benefits Through National Health Reform
Release 6.2.10
Two Reports Study Health Care Reform Impact on Women’s Health
September 27, 2010
Massachusetts as a Model for Healthy Aging
This forum is the second in a series moving towards an action plan to help make Massachusetts a model state for healthy aging. It will provide information on existing programs in the Commonwealth to facilitate healthy aging and identify gaps. Information will be provided on initiatives in other states to coordinate services and activities and move towards healthy aging communities at the grassroots level. We will also hear about innovative strategies to develop a healthy aging public awareness campaign and discuss ways to work together towards achieving this important goal. Speakers will include: Commissioner John Auerbach from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Ruth Palombo from Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, Jennifer Wallace-Brodeur from Burlington Livable Communities Project, AARP Vermont, and John Beilenson from Strategic Communications & Planning. This forum is co-sponsored and made possible by Tufts Health Plan Foundation. 
Forum held on June 21, 2010
A Celebration of Health Care Reform: From Massachusetts to the Nation
Massachusetts led the nation in health care reform and served as the model for the new national health care reform law. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation and the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum held a forum that celebrated this landmark achievement and discussed the implications for the Commonwealth moving forward. Speakers included: Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary JudyAnn Bigby, Glen Shor from the Commonwealth Connector, Robert Seifert from Center for Health Law and Economis, Robert Blendon from Harvard School of Public Health, Deborah Enos from Neighborhood Health Plan, Toni McGuire from Great Brook Valley Health Center, and Amy Whitcomb Slemmer from Health Care For All.
Forum held on June 2, 2010
Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Impact on Women’s Health
Understanding the experience of women under Massachusetts’ health reform model is fundamental to recognizing challenges and opportunities as the state moves toward payment and delivery system reform and implements new federal health reform laws. Women use more health services throughout their lives and face unique challenges accessing affordable care. This forum outlined the role of women’s health in health care reform, discuss the impact of health care reform on women in Massachusetts, and draw lessons for ongoing efforts in Massachusetts and the U.S. Alina Salganicoff from the Kaiser Family Foundation provided an overview of health care reform as it relates to women, followed by two panel discussions. The first panel will presented data and research on the impact of Massachusetts health reform on women’s health and health care delivery in the state. Presenters discuss key findings and identified remaining challenges and opportunities. Panelists included Sharon Long from Urban Institute; Kelly Blanchard from Ibis Reproductive Health; and Susan Sered from Suffolk University. The second panel was a roundtable discussion of implications for future health reform in Massachusetts and the U.S. Panelists included Senator Susan Fargo, Ruth Katz, Senior Health Counsel for the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives; Nancy Turnbull from Harvard School of Public Health; and Judy Waxman from National Women's Law Center. This forum was co-sponsored by the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Suffolk University Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Region 1 (New England), Office on Women's Healt , and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Region I (New England), Office of the Regional Health Administrator.