All Web Leads Transforming Insurance Marketplace with Innovative ... - Business Wire (press release)

All Web Leads Transforming Insurance Marketplace with Innovative ... Business Wire (press release), CA At the end of Q3-2008, the percentage of online consumers looking for health insurance who lacked insurance increased significantly to 86%. Chuck Taggart sells MEGA Life & Health insurance products in Massachusetts and set a new sales record in 2008, ...
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BOSTON—Massachusetts officials are integrating a two-decade-old state program that heavily subsidizes COBRA health insurance
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Expanded Health Insurance Might Meet Shortage of Doctors - CQPolitics.com

Expanded Health Insurance Might Meet Shortage of Doctors CQPolitics.com, DC Otherwise, the first days after the passage of the health care overhaul could look much like the months after Massachusetts ’ universal health care plan took effect in 2006, when newly insured patients overwhelmed primary care practices, leading to long ...
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With Health Care for Nearly All, Massachusetts Now Faces Costs New York
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Rick Holmes: A new agenda to fix Massachusetts politics - Norwich Bulletin

Rick Holmes: A new agenda to fix Massachusetts politics Norwich Bulletin, CT You have to quit your job for at least six months to mount a campaign, sometimes sacrificing your family's health insurance in the process. You've got to hit up all your friends for money, dip into your own pocket and probably borrow as well. ...
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Boston Globe Should Catholic hospitals compromise on abortion? Spero News This
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Mass. regulators OK joint Caritas-Centene healthcare venture (Boston Globe)

After more than a week of controversy, state regulators voted yesterday to accept a bid by a Massachusetts Catholic hospital chain and a secular health organization to provide health insurance to thousands of low-income residents.
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Don’t Look to Massachusetts to Model Heath Care Reform North Star Writers Group, MI Not only will Congress have poured mega-billions of our tax dollars into failed banks
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Board keeps Commonwealth Care costs level (Boston Herald)

BOSTON - Costs for state-subsidized health plans in Massachusetts will stay level or decrease because of economic conditions. The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector...
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The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, the entity tasked with administering the state’s subsidized health care plans, has voted to keep premium costs the same for the state’s uninsured, after yearly increases averaging 4.5 percent for the past three years. The board cited the
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Insure America's newest entitlement by talking to Massachusetts - Daily Illini

dBTechno Insure America's newest entitlement by talking to Massachusetts Daily Illini, IL Health insurance in Massachusetts is mandatory, just like automobile insurance , and 97 percent of the state is covered under either private, federal or state-subsidized plans. Although Massachusetts ' system is not perfect, it is a step in the right ... HEALTH CARE 'This Time, We Will Not Fail' Cherry Creek News The Massachusetts Model - How NOT to Solve the Healthcare Crisis Socialist
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Stimulus money will cover health insurance of unemployed - NECN

NECN Stimulus money will cover health insurance of unemployed NECN, MA (NECN: Peter Howe, Boston , Mass.) - The state of Massachusetts is stepping up efforts to help unemployed residents afford health insurance . They're using federal stimulus money and an existing state program to cut the costs of the federal COBRA program ...
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Boston Globe The Massachusetts Model - How NOT to
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Health Insurance and Employee Benefits Issues on WATD March 14 ... - Market Wire (press release)

Health Insurance and Employee Benefits Issues on WATD March 14 ... Market Wire (press release) BOSTON , MA --(Marketwire - March 9, 2009) - Patrick J. Haraden, Senior VP of employee benefit services at Longfellow Benefits, will discuss employee benefits on "McNamara On Money" on WATD 95.9 FM in Marshfield, Mass., on Saturday, March 14, ...
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BOSTON -- The decision by Congress to fund an expansion of the
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Debate continues on Boston health-care agency's bid for contract ... - Catholic Culture

Boston Globe Debate continues on Boston health -care agency's bid for contract ... Catholic Culture Pro-abortion groups in Massachusetts are staking out their opposition to a bid by Boston's Catholic health -care chain Caritas Christi to become involved in a state health - insurance program. The potential involvement of Caritas Christi in the program, ... Cardinal O'Malley Says Caritas Hospital Deal Will Not Result in ... LifeNews.com O'Malley backs Caritas venture Boston Globe Caritas criticized
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Baucus sets quick pace for reform in health care - TMCnet

Baucus sets quick pace for reform in health care TMCnet Max Baucus said Tuesday that he hopes to have a health reform package on the Senate floor by early or mid-summer and that it will resemble a Massachusetts -style plan requiring everyone to buy or have health insurance . Baucus, who called health care ...
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Business in Brief The Patriot Ledger, MA BOSTON – The Group Insurance Commission, the agency
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