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All Your Base Rates Are Belong To Us: Springfield Republican Reports on Premiums Under Obamacare 26 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
Yesterday, a story by Shira Schoenberg in the Springfield Republican covered the just-approved health insurance rates for next year: The basic cost of a health care plan for an individual or small b...
MassHealth Draft 1115 Waiver Public Hearing and Comment Dates Set 23 Aug 2013 | 01:02 am
MassHealth reached out to Health Care For All and asked us to share the following information regarding their renewal for their 1115 Waiver request. The 1115 Waiver allows states to expand health care...
Reddit answers the question: what is universal health care really like? 21 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
There’s an amazing conversation happening on Reddit (an enormous social news site / message board) right now about health care around the world. It started with one Redditor asking the question: “Redd...
Remember That Dire ACA Forecast? Never Mind. 19 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Remember that dire report commissioned by the Mass Association of Health Plans from July (it’s here (pdf))? Never mind. The report was an attempt to forecast the impact of the ACA on small group and...
Interview: Liz Is Happy To Gets Her “Medical Loss Ratio” Rebate From Her Insurer 10 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
Under both Massachusetts law and the ACA, insurers must spend a minimum percentage of health care premium revenue on medical benefits for the people they cover. This is called the “Medical Loss Ratio”...
Tobacco Tax Increased Today: Win – Win – Win – Win …. (how many wins do you want?) 1 Aug 2013 | 07:08 am
Today Massachusetts increased its tobacco taxes, on both cigarettes and other forms of tobacco. Back when the legislature was debating tobacco taxes in the 1990s, one legislator called it a win-win p...
Powerful WGBH Report on MassHealth Dental: “My teeth have literally fallen apart, crumbled.” 30 Jul 2013 | 02:54 am
This morning WGBH radio ran a story on the continued impact of the MassHealth adult dental cuts that were initiated in July 2010. Three years after most dental benefits were eliminated, we’ll see som...
Health Policy Commission Looks At Grant Program 28 Jul 2013 | 11:39 pm
The Health Policy Commission met on Thursday July 25th for its seventh full meeting. The Commission is moving ahead with important work set to occur in the fall, which will include awarding grants to ...
Consumer Appeal Rights Comments Wanted 24 Jul 2013 | 11:31 pm
The Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) Quality Improvement and Patient Protection Committee convened yesterday. The meeting focused on a discussion of the Office of Patient Protection’s (OPP) internal a...
Bringing the ACA to All Communities in Massachusetts – Launching ACA Outreach Campaign 23 Jul 2013 | 07:04 pm
We want to keep you up-to-date on all the great outreach work that HCFA has been doing. If you hadn’t already heard, we are proud to partner with The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human...
