MA healthcare

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/09/obamacare-more-taxing-than-romneycare-two-laws-differences-debated/ President Obama’s camp chafes at the notion the health care law’s individual  insurance mandate packs the threat of a tax. One way Democrats have been  responding to to such criticisms is to point the finger at Mitt Romney and the  health...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/07/06/44000_uninsured_massachusetts_residents_paid_penalty_in_2010/?page=2 Francisco Machado of Lowell had long gone without health insurance. Strong and healthy, he preferred to save the money or send it to family in Brazil, until pain and buzzing in his ear sent him to the emergency room. The $600...

http://www.redstate.com/tex_whitley/2012/05/31/massachusetts-plans-to-squeeze-doctors-to-control-health-care-costs/ On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Josh Archambault to discuss the Massachusetts effort to manage health care costs by squeezing the state’s doctors, how it will impact the quality of care, and...

http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2012/1/31/federal-overhaul-will-require-mass-to-adjust-its-health-reform-law.aspx#ixzz2O6SYjEp4 Although the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law contains many of the same  provisions as the federal health reform law, state officials must make changes  to comply with federal overhaul standards, Politico reports. About the Massachusetts Law The Massachusetts law was signed...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2012/04/18/another-take-budget-buster-report-health-law-was-more-expensive-one-analyst-says/P3MWkYqHtZG5MMYUGX6PvM/story.html Josh Archambault appreciates that there are other people in the state, besides him, trying to calculate the overall cost of the 2006 Massachusetts law requiring most residents to have health insurance.  And, he said, he thinks a report out last week...

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/03/learning_from_massachusetts_he.html Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has taken considerable heat during the Republican primaries for the health care legislation that passed while he was in office. Sadly, election-year politics have overshadowed the real lessons of Massachusetts’ experiment. The core question then-Gov. Romney...