A change in the way the Internal Revenue Service interprets the Affordable Care Act was announced this week and will apparently expand access to low cost health insurance for thousands…
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Amy Rosenthal, the Executive Director of Health Care For All, works with her team to move the needle on health care policy, pushing for more affordability and access. The organization…
Nearly 86,000 people who purchase largely unsubsidized health insurance on the Massachusetts Health Connector will face a 7.6 percent premium increase next year, on top of increases totaling at least…
Representantes del Instituto de Reforma Legal de Massachusetts (MLRI), la Coalición de Defensa de Inmigrantes y Refugiados de Massachusetts (MIRA), Health Care For All (HCFA) y Health Law Advocates (HLA)…
SEPT. 14, 2022…..A year after cost increases that board members called “not sustainable” and “quite disappointing,” there was no opposition last week as the Massachusetts Health Connector board approved plan…
Ten years ago, as medical costs soared, Massachusetts passed landmark legislation to tackle the problem. The law created the Health Policy Commission, a first-of-its-kind watchdog agency to monitor rising costs….
A plan to dramatically expand state-subsidized health insurance coverage to tens of thousands of people has fallen victim to the chaotic end of the legislative session. Approved by the state…
Sarah Iselin, who helped implement Massachusetts’ 2006 health reform law that became the template for the Affordable Care Act, has been appointed the new head of the state’s largest insurer….
AUG. 11, 2022….August in even-numbered years features plenty of self-congratulatory messaging from lawmakers about the bills they passed after months of deliberation – and perhaps some procrastination and brinksmanship –…
Health Connector pilot Baker’s veto of the Health Connector pilot was not a surprise since he previously returned the same language with an amendment, which lawmakers failed to adopt. Because…