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Another take on “budget buster” report: Health law was more expensive, one analyst says

By Chelsea Conaboy

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 18, 2012

Josh Archambault, director of health care policy for the conservative Pioneer Institute, appreciates that there are other people in the state trying to calculate the overall cost of the 2006 Massachusetts law requiring most residents to have health insurance. And, he said, he thinks a report out last week from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation mostly got it right. But one part of the report, stating that the average annual increase in state spending for health reform between fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2011 was $91 million, just struck him as odd.

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