Mass. health care plan moving forward
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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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RICHMOND, Jan. 28 -- The Virginia General Assembly continued to move forward Monday to overhaul how the state cares for people with mental illness, promising to fix a system whose flaws were exposed last year after the shootings at Virginia Tech.
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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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The bill that Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) signed into law this week to extend health coverage to an estimated 140,000 people puts Maryland among a growing group of states attempting to chip away at their soaring numbers of uninsured.
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The Massachusetts Hospital Association is expected to unveil an ambitious program today to improve patient safety in the state's 105 hospitals, including public posting of nurses' workloads at individual hospitals and the number of hours each day they spend directly caring for patients.
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The Ontario government is adamant it will push ahead with its agenda to improve health care despite a sound rejection of a proposed landmark deal by the province&#39;s doctors.
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Smokers in Massachusetts would face a 20-cent increase in the tobacco tax under a health care reform plan by Sen. Richard T. Moore to provide health insurance to Bay State families unable to afford it.
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Questions are being raised about the NHS's ability to push ahead with plans to close services.
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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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Maryland leaders raised hopes yesterday for a special session of the General Assembly next month that would focus on curbing insurance rate increases for doctors, but acknowledged that key details
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BOSTON -- Smokers would pay an extra 50 cents a pack for cigarettes under a plan being pushed by a health care advocacy group. The plan is designed to dramatically reduce the number of uninsured people in Massachusetts.
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TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario government is adamant it will push ahead with its agenda to improve health care despite a sound rejection of a proposed landmark deal by the province&#39;s doctors.
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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 goal was as audacious as it was simple: Plug the holes in Massachusetts' health care network without resorting to the politically nuclear option of a single government-funded program.
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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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Tufts-New England Medical Center and New England Baptist Hospital plan to jointly build a hospital of up to 190 beds in the Boston suburbs, the first new hospital in Massachusetts in more than a quarter-century.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has foiled Tufts-New England Medical Center's plan to build a $300 million suburban hospital with New England Baptist Hospital . Instead, New England Baptist and Beth Israel Deaconess will work together on suburban expansion.