The board that oversees Massachusetts’ landmark health insurance law voted this week to delay key elements of the plan by a year and a half to give residents and businesses a chance to ramp up their health care coverage to …
Massachusetts would become the first state in the nation to essentially require all insurers provide prescription drug coverage, under recommendations made Tuesday to the board overseeing the state’s landmark health care law. The recommendations would also make Massachusetts the first …
Health care activists say the low-cost health insurance plans unveiled recently by Gov. Deval Patrick – some with monthly premiums as low as $175 – sound too good to be true. They point to what they say are the hidden …
The average uninsured Massachusetts residents could obtain health care coverage for as little as $175 a month under the state’s insurance law, Gov. Deval Patrick announced as he released the results of negotiations with the state’s health insurers. The lowest …
The board charged with getting insurers to come up with low-cost health care plans is considering a proposal that would allow insurers to offer plans that don’t include prescription drug coverage. The goal is to produce health care plans that …
The panel assigned with turning Massachusetts’ groundbreaking health care law into a reality sent insurers back to the drawing board this week, saying they need to do a better job at coming up with low cost health care plans. The …
Lobbyists trying to influence Massachusetts legislation on Beacon Hill raked in a record $64.3 million in 2006, as they plied their trade on issues ranging from education and insurance to tobacco and cable television, according to state Secretary William Galvin. …
Soon-to-be teen drivers would have to spend more time behind the wheel with their parents and face stiffer penalties for speeding and drag racing under a bill that could be headed to Gov. Mitt Romney’s desk by the end of …
Massachusetts began signing up its poorest residents for low-cost health insurance , the first step in the state’s goal to be the first in America to require all citizens to have health insurance. “This is a historic day for us,” …
A company that runs a low-price bus service between Chinatowns in Boston and New York has reached an agreement with state inspectors that keeps its fleet on the road, at least for now. The owners of the Fung Wah Bus …
