claim: "massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of health-care costs in this year."
author: elizabeth roberts
evidence_1: "massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation  of health-care costs in this year." — politifact rhode island on sunday, june ...
evidence_2: sep 30, 2017 ... a brief history of health care reform in massachusetts ... national healthcare  policy. ... also benefits from her years of experience in private healthcare .....  commission's 2016 cost trends report, average statewide family premium and  .... much of this activity focused on the problems of ever escalating ...
evidence_3: data are derived from the national health interview survey and, for years prior ...  massachusetts had recently implemented bipartisan legislation to expand ... this  is by far the largest decline in the uninsured rate since the creation of .... trends  in health care costs and quality under the aca have been promising (figure 4,).
evidence_4: may make it particularly vulnerable to these recent trends. .... coverage—the  same as the national average and less than all new england states except  vermont. ... the return of health care cost inflation may hit massachusetts harder,  potentially .... now, however, the economic downturn and escalating health costs  have ...
evidence_5: sep 18, 2015 ... report for annual public hearing under g.l. c. 6d, § 8 .... been a major reason  for escalating health care premiums. ... enhanced interventions, market based as  well as regulatory, to address continuing market ...... full claims expenditures,54  has compared favorably to national trends.55 in massachusetts,.