The landmark Massachusetts healthcare law has had only a "marginal impact" on state spending while dramatically expanding the ranks of the insured, according to a report by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
The foundation, a group that had supported the law, said yesterday it found state healthcare spending will grow by $707 million between the 2006 and 2010 fiscal years.
Half the increase is reimbursed by the federal government for an annual state increase of $88 million.
That has allowed the state to achieve the lowest uninsured rate in the country.
