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Massachusetts insurance rate increases for 2012 smallest in years as insurers respond to the governor's and other's urging to give small businesses and individuals a break.
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According to the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling, the state cannot bar legal immigrants from Commonwealth Care, the state healthcare program. The decision pushes the state closer to its goal of providing near-universal healthcare coverage to all residents of the state.
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A new Harvard study reports the percentage of personal bankruptcies linked to medical bills or illness changed little, and the absolute number actually increased in Massachusetts after the implementation of its landmark 2006 law requiring people to buy health insurance.
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A new poll finds 59% of Massachusetts residents who are aware of the state's health reform legislation, which was enacted in 2006, support it.
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Massachusetts soon may come up with a new on how the health insurance companies will reimburse doctors and hospitals for their services.
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Massachusetts' health insurance law will not be sustainable over the next five to 10 years unless the state takes significant steps to reduce health care spending growth, government and industry officials say, the New York Times reports. Architects of the 2006 law said that it would not have been feasible to include heavy cost control measures in the legislation.
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Modeling the U.S. health care system after Massachusetts' health insurance law would leave many residents without affordable health insurance coverage, according to analysis by three Harvard Medical School physicians and a letter signed by 500 state physicians sent to Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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More than 44,000 Massachusetts seniors must pay larger prescription drug copayments as a result of an $11 million cut to the state Prescription Advantage program, which provides copay assistance for seniors who meet an income-eligibility requirement.
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick met with health care industry executives to request that they address rising health care costs or potentially face new government regulations.
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Enrollment in a Massachusetts program designed to help unemployed state residents pay health insurance premiums has increased by 73% in the past year.
