Massachusetts spurs health-care debate
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Working the phones of a health-care hotline in Boston, Kate Bicego does something that is unique in the country: she explains how even the poorest people can get state-funded health coverage.
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Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney&#39;s new healthcare proposal calls for a range of penalties for businesses that fail to provide employees with health insurance.
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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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AT THE MOMENT, the precise numbers and costs of the health care reforms proposed by President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry are the subject of angry campaign rhetoric.
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As of July 1, Massachusetts residents are required to buy health insurance, and many businesses must offer health insurance or pay a penalty. Globe reporter Jeffrey Krasner recently spoke with Jon Kingsdale , executive director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, about the implementation of healthcare reform and how businesses are responding to the challenge.
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Talking about health care has become an annual ritual as lawmakers plan for the next legislative session. But this year, health care advocates and professionals think the rhetoric may actually lead to action.
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Massachusetts began signing up it poorest residents for virtually free health insurance Monday under the state's landmark health care law, even as administration officials urged lawmakers to close a "loophole" they say could let thousands of children go insured.
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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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The Red Sox and Patriots aren't the only Massachusetts winners this fall. Each of the state's top four nonprofit health plans took high honors in an annual ranking of health insurance companies in the United States. For the third year running, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care was named the best health insurance company in the country, according to rankings compiled by ...
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton rejoins the health care debate in earnest Monday with a plan to expand coverage. Positions of other presidential candidates:
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The premiums insurers will charge to cover the poorest Massachusetts residents are in line with what the architects of the state's new health insurance law predicted, meaning there should be enough money to pay for the plan in its initial year, officials said.
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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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For all of the past year&#39;s hand-wringing over health care, debates over ways to expand insurance coverage and rein in costs have been all but been drowned out in the
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Massachusetts health insurers are promoting a new type of Medicare coverage for seniors in 2008 that potentially offers better coverage than traditional government-sponsored Medicare. The new plans, called private fee-for-service, also raise questions about the long-term direction of Medicare because they cost more than traditional coverage but are not held to higher quality and efficiency standards.
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The November elections in Massachusetts were supposed to be Phase Two in the state's epic gay-rights battle, a time for political payback and citizen retaliation for votes cast during this year's debate on gay marriage.
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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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In debates about drug importation and the distribution of flu vaccines Sunday, the nation&#39;s largest physician organization argued health care is more than a free-enterprise venture.