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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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt  Romney on Friday unveiled his plan for overhauling the U.S.  health care system with tax breaks and other incentives aimed  at helping the 45 million Americans without health insurance.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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MUNICIPAL UNIONS should raise a holiday toast to gullible Massachusetts taxpayers for their willingness to absorb disproportionate pain from increases in health insurance costs. Bostonians, for example, sit by passively while city workers, who pay just 10 percent of premium costs for their HMO coverage, gobble up nearly half of the annual increase in the city's operating budget.
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THE REGION Network Health, the Cambridge health plan for Medicaid recipients and consumers purchasing low-cost insurance under the state's healthcare reform plan, said it has significantly expanded its choice of doctors and hospitals for members. The insurer said it signed agreements with Brigham and Women's Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Faulkner Hospital and other members of Partners ...
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While governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney helped write an innovative plan that created universal health insurance in his state through offering tax subsidies for low-income people, expanding the number of people on public programs such as Medicaid, and creating a state agency that made it easier...
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Viewpoint: Joe Klein takes a look at Clinton's health care plan, and finds  -  lo and behold  -  that it has a chance to work
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SENATE PRESIDENT Robert E. Travaglini and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation put the issue of health coverage for the uninsured squarely on the agenda of state government yesterday.
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A new kind of medical practice is flourishing nationwide that offers to go to where the patients are â whether a home, an office or a hotel.
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, run by Harvard physician Dr. Donald Berwick, will try to save 100,000 patients from fatal medical errors and poor care in the next 18 months by persuading hospitals to improve in six areas.
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Massachusetts is better poised to capitalize on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals than any other state, according to a study to be released today by the Milken Institute, an independent economic think tank.
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Small employers that are only willing to pay one-third of their workers' healthcare insurance premiums can now offer policies through Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Previously, the state's largest health insurer only offered coverage to companies that contributed at least one-half of premium costs.
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The quest to save dollars in the nationâs $2.1 trillion annual health care bill is becoming a lucrative market of its own.
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An initiative, known as Healthy San Francisco, is the first effort by a locality to guarantee care to all of its uninsured.
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A group of the largest commercial hospital chains plans to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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About half of Massachusetts hospitals say they have adopted policies to waive charges for serious medical errors such as wrong-site surgery and harmful medication mistakes, and others say they plan to, amid growing resistance from government and health insurers to paying for poor outcomes.
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Online tools can help workers assess their planâs health.