In Massachusetts, test for a pioneering health plan
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Its new insurance mandate kicks in July 1. Some see a model for the rest of the US.
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Doctors in Massachusetts would be able to access patients' records from any hospital or clinic in the state by computer under an initiative announced Monday.
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You can take money from an IRA to start a health savings account.
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If you haven't heard of Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. , the Waltham medical-testing company on one of the biggest shopping sprees in the healthcare industry, it's no accident.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be.
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JUST WHAT the state needs: another business committee. Well, yes, actually -- if the new Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative can rationalize the state's current hodge podge of overlapping and competing efforts to boost this promising industry. Jobs for at least 600,000 Massachusetts residents and 10 percent of the state's gross domestic product depend on it.
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A group of the nationâs largest for-profit hospital chains plan to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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Uninsured Washington area residents shopping for health coverage -- or convinced they have to go without -- have a new tool to help them assess the options available to them. A Web site first developed for California by the nonprofit Foundation for Health Coverage Education now includes informati...
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Howard County officials are expected to propose a health network next month that would provide comprehensive services to all uninsured adults in the county. The plan places Howard at the forefront of local governments seeking to offer affordable health care to all its residents, local officials say.
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The test, developed by Harvard researchers at the Children&#39;s Hospital in Boston, is a preliminary finding. But if it is backed up by further research, it could herald a major breakthrough in efforts to detect
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Hawaii, the first U.S. state to mandate that employers provide health insurance for workers, scored best among its peers in providing safe and affordable medical care, a report released on Wednesday found.
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Part-time workers, contractors, and early retirees who usually wouldn't qualify for corporate health insurance could get coverage under a plan unveiled yesterday by a consortium of dozens of large companies.
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BOSTON -- There is a lot of talk about overhauling health care in the United States, but Massachusetts is actually trying to do it -- again.
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Former Gov. Mitt Romney says other states can replicate Massachusetts' program of universal health care if the federal government creates an environment in which private health insurance can expand.
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More than 135,000 Massachusetts residents who were previously uninsured have gotten free or subsidized coverage under the state's landmark health insurance law. The initiative established Massachusetts as the first state to require every resident to have coverage. An estimated 250,000 to 350,000 people remain uninsured. The law mandated the expansion of Medicaid and the establishment of new state-subsidized insurance and ...
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BOSTON -- The average uninsured Massachusetts resident could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state's insurance law, less than half of earlier estimates, officials said Saturday.
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Pioneering research is to test if stem cells can repair heart muscle damaged by a heart attack.