This budget brief describes the proposals affecting MassHealth (Medicaid) and other health care programs which were included in the House final budget for FY 2013. It is part of a series of fact sheets that will be published by the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute (MMPI) and produced by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in partnership with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.
To address the state’s $1.3 billion budget gap, the House budget calls for approximately $685 million in temporary revenue along with cuts and savings of roughly $560 million.
This budget brief describes the proposals affecting MassHealth (Medicaid) and other health care programs which were included in the House Ways and Means’s Committee’s FY 2013 budget. It is part of a series of fact sheets that will be published by the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute (MMPI) and produced by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in partnership with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.
On April 11, the House Committee on Ways and Means (HWM) released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2013 (FY 2013). To address the state’s $1.3 billion budget gap, the proposal calls for approximately $685 million in temporary revenue along with cuts and savings of nearly $600 million.
This budget brief describes the proposals in the Governor’s FY13 budget which affect MassHealth (Medicaid) and other health care programs. It is the first in a series of fact sheets that will be published by the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute (MMPI) and produced by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in partnership with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.
On January 25, the Governor filed his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2013. Our Budget Monitor tracks the impact of those proposals on each major area of state government, from heath care and education to public safety and the environment–including information on tax revenues.
assessment, The State of Working Massachusetts 2011, shows that while Massachusetts has shared in this hardship, its economy is performing better than the rest of the country. What is more, our commitment to education has, over time, helped to make us one of the highest-income states in the nation.
On September 22, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual update of state-level data on household income from the American Community Survey (ACS). These data show that median household income in Massachusetts fell to $62,072 in 2010. This is a statistically significant decline of $3,182 or 4.9 percent from the 2009 level of $65,254 (adjusted to 2010 dollars). For the U.S. as a whole, the ACS data show median household income stood at $50,046 in 2010, a statistically significant decline of $1,144 or 2.2 percent from the 2009 level. Since 2007 (in the final month of which, the nation officially fell into recession), median household income in Massachusetts dropped an inflation-adjusted $3,307 or 5.1 percent. During the same period, U.S. median household income fell $3,280 or 6.2 percent.
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual update of state-level poverty rates from the American Community Survey (ACS). In contrast to the Census’ Current Population Survey, for which data were released last week, this survey provides more reliable demographic information for individual states. It includes data on the rise in child poverty in the US and in Massachusetts.
Health insurance coverage in Massachusetts far surpasses coverage nationally and in all other states, detailed statistics released by the Census Bureau September 22 confirm.