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Health care reform will raise costs, reduce quality - Modesto Bee
Health care reform will raise costs, reduce quality Modesto Bee, CA They also argue that we must get everyone covered to lower health costs. Massachusetts provides us with evidence: The state was the first to require all residents to have health insurance , but the subsidies enacted as part of its reform plan are ...
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Health Care Reform Is Working In Massachusetts (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOSTON----A new report from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation finds that the overall distribution of spending on health insurance by employers, individuals, and government remained essentially the same between 2005, one year before passage of Massachusetts health reform, and 2007, one year after lawmakers passed the Massachusetts health care reform law.
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Massachusetts Spent $793.7M In FY 2008 On Health Coverage For Employees Of Large Businesses, Report Finds (Medical News Today)
The cost of providing subsidized health coverage to Massachusetts residents and their families who work for large companies increased by 24.6% to $793.7 million in the last fiscal year, according to a state Division of Health Care Finance and Policy report released on Wednesday, the Boston Globe reports.
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Mass. groups sharing burden of health insurance (INO News)
(AP:BOSTON) A new study affirms one of the key principles of Massachusetts's landmark health care reform law: employers, individuals and the government are proportionately sharing the burden of paying for insurance.
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