romneycare

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/health_stew/2012/04/on_birthday_6_reflections_on_r.html Prior to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, hardly anyone referred to Massachusetts health reform as “RomneyCare.” As with “ObamaCare,” it was a term of choice only for critics, most of them out-of-state.  The libertarian Cato Institute began using it back in...

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120327/OPINION04/703279967 President Barack Obama keeps trying to give former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney credit for the Affordable Care Act, which tells you how unpopular Obamacare is. Romney, Obama told the public radio show “Marketplace,” “is now pretending like he came up with...

http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/apageofbooks/s_788030.html#axzz2NcwhEhqG If the U.S. Supreme Court — where oral arguments begin Monday — overturns  ObamaCare, states should become laboratories for reform; if it’s upheld, states’  design of their insurance “exchanges” still will be important and should reflect  each state’s demographics and health...

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...

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/commentary/jim-stergios-and-joshua-archambault-consider-what-worked-with-romneycare/article_cde520a3-9336-54dc-8e3c-da202ecd9f8c.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 was...

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/865-politicselections/215781-book-romney-not-responsible-for-obama-health-law Says Democrats altered the Massachusetts law signed by Romney, which has been  called the inspiration for Obama’s national reform law. It’s unfair to call Mitt Romney the architect of President Obama’s healthcare  law because of how thoroughly the Republican presidential candidate’s...

On December 20th, Governor Deval Patrick, and the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation, congratulated themselves on the resolution of a six month delayed renewal of the Massachusetts Medicaid waiver. The waiver will run for the next 3 years. I blogged on Pioneer Institute’s...

http://www.wnd.com/2011/12/379485/#Hyav3UGghAyuQWq5.99 According to several insurance and public-policy analysts, Massachusetts’  much heralded health-insurance reform plan, labeled “Romneycare” by its critics,  is facing a potential financial crisis and may have to be scaled back. A senior analyst at a Virginia-based think tank that has...

Today marks the 6th extension granted to the Commonwealth for the Medicaid waiver that serves as the foundation for our 2006 reform. I have written about this before here and here. As a review, the Massachusetts MassHealth 1115 waiver from the federal government...

This post was co-written by Michael Morisy. During this year’s budget debate, Pioneer asked many questions about the reality behind optimistic health care cost predictions which, if flawed, could leave the state facing a $900 million budget hole next year alone. The...