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The Massachusetts health care reform, commonly referred to as Romneycare, [1] was a healthcare reform law passed in 2006 and signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney with the aim of providing health insurance to nearly all of the residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Under former Governor Mitt Romney, Massachusetts passed comprehensive healthcare reform intended to cover nearly all of its residents. Massachusetts health care reform successfully covered approximately two-thirds of then-uninsured residents, but significant barriers to access of health care still exist. The primary factor affecting access to ...
Governor Romney's plan redirects money from this fund to subsidize health insurance costs for low-income residents of Massachusetts. The Romney Administration consulted with Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Gruber to study the state's population and health care needs. They determined that there was enough money in the ...
Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services Kate Walsh answers a question at a press conference at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.
The company employs more than 16,000 nurses, doctors and other frontline, essential health care workers in the state. Steward closed Quincy Medical Center in 2014, three years after buying it. The ...
Tim Foley, the executive vice president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the union representing nearly 80,000 health care workers throughout Massachusetts, said Friday's announcement is ...
Massachusetts health care reform, a 2006 health-care reform bill in Massachusetts commonly known as Romneycare; New Romney, Kent, England New Romney (UK Parliament constituency), the Parliament seat for New Romney; New Romney railway station, a depot in Kent, England; Old Romney, a nearby Kentish village of similar age to New Romney
Elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Romney helped develop and later signed a health care reform law (commonly called "Romneycare") that provided near-universal health insurance access through state-level subsidies and individual mandates to purchase insurance.