Correct Response: D. The Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act of 2006 was enacted to provide health insurance to nearly all residents of Massachusetts. One provision of the bill required that employers that have more than ten full-time employees and that do not contribute to employee health- care insurance be assessed an annual fee to help fund state health care programs. While there are incentives for employers to provide health insurance to employees, employers are not required to provide basic health-care services such as blood pressure monitoring, annual flu shots, or blood tests to check for cholesterol levels (A). The bill did not include any provisions about bidding on state contracts (B). While large companies could be assessed a fee, this fee was per employee and independent of corporate profits (C).
