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This contribution, initially $295 annually per worker, is intended to equalize the free care pool charges imposed on employers who do and do not cover their workers. On April 12, 2006, Governor Romney signed the health legislation. [23] He vetoed eight sections of the health care legislation, including the controversial employer assessment. [24]
A poll that was released in early April 2012 by Public Policy Polling showed that those surveyed favored the measure 43% to 37%, with one-fifth of those polled showing they were undecided on the issue. [24] A late-May poll was taken by both Western New England University and MassLive.com showing support for the measure 60% to 29%.
In the 2014 gubernatorial election for governor of Massachusetts, the Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll sampled a much higher percentage of mobile phones (35%) than some other pollsters. Suffolk's polling in the race "tended to be quite accurate, although the differences from some of the other polls were not large."
Massachusetts Senator Michael Rodrigues wants to "take for-profit, equity-based companies out of the health care system."
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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.
Healthcare reform in the United States has had a long history.Reforms have often been proposed but have rarely been accomplished. In 2010, landmark reform was passed through two federal statutes: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed March 23, 2010, [1] [2] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (), which amended the PPACA and became law on March ...
Massachusetts health care reform [ edit ] Cahill is a vocal critic of the state's health care reform bill , often called "Romneycare" for Governor Mitt Romney, who signed the legislation into law, and which Cahill has called "a fiscal train wreck" that has "blown a hole in the Commonwealth's budget."