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Massachusetts Health Care

Obamacare Versus Romneycare: How Similar Are They?

Brad Burd | Posted 12.10.2012 | Politics
Brad Burd

What do those terms mean and how are President Obama's and Governor Romney's vision for health care different?

Mitt Romney's "Factual Dexterity" and the Presidential Debates

John Paul Rollert | Posted 12.02.2012 | Politics
John Paul Rollert

So was Santorum right to accuse Romney of "serially" telling audiences "that he did not do what we now know he did repeatedly"? That depends entirely on how you define what Romney actually "did."

Jeffrey Young

Not Good Enough: Why Romney's Wrong About Emergency Rooms, Clinics And The Uninsured

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 09.26.2012 | Business

More than 1,000 people are expected to flood the halls of the Dallas Convention Center this Saturday seeking medical care at a one-day event sponsored...

Elise Foley

Mitt Romney: 'I'm The Guy Who Was Able To Get Health Care' For Massachusetts

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.26.2012 | Politics

Mitt Romney said Sunday that he doesn't foresee a problem appealing to women voters, touting the fact that his Massachusetts health care law helped ma...

Romney Health Plan

Jeff Danziger | Posted 10.11.2012 | Politics
Jeff Danziger

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Massachusetts Forging Ahead With Innovative Health Care Plan

Reuters | Posted 09.30.2012 | Politics

By Ros Krasny BOSTON, July 31 (Reuters) - Massachusetts lawmakers on Tuesday are expected to vote on a sweeping bill aimed at contain...

Reality Bites: Massachusetts Economy Proves Health Care Reform Didn't Destroy Businesses

Kelly Bovio | Posted 09.16.2012 | Politics
Kelly Bovio

If government and business can align around the urgent moral, business and fiscal imperatives that made health care reform essential, the nation can put this challenge behind it and go to work together on the next one.

Staple Of Romney's Legacy May Bode Well For Obama

AP | STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Politics

BOSTON — Massachusetts has the nation's highest rate of residents with health insurance. Visits to emergency rooms are beginning to ease. More r...

Even With Universal Health Care, People Can Slip Through The Cracks

Hunter Stuart | Posted 08.24.2012 | Politics
Hunter Stuart

Even in Massachusetts, a state that passed a health reform law similar to Obamacare in 2006, the health care system isn't nearly good enough. Hunter Stuart tells the story of his childhood friend, who fell through a gaping hole in the safety net.

Contentious Romney Achievement Has Mass. Appeal

AP | STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 08.06.2012 | Politics

BOSTON — It's the single most contentious element of President Barack Obama's health care law: the requirement that nearly everyone have insuran...

Emails Show Romney Strongly Defended Mass. Insurance Mandate

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.05.2012 | Politics

When Mitt Romney left office as Massachusetts governor, his aides removed all emails from a server computer in the governor's office, and purchased an...

Why Was There No Backlash To The Individual Mandate In Massachusetts?

The New Republic | Posted 05.22.2012 | Politics

BOSTON—One of the most interesting stories about health care reform in Massachusetts, where I’m on a learning tour this week, is a story that neve...

Serious Questions About D.C.'s Proposed Health Care Exchange

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 07.03.2012 | DC
Peter D. Rosenstein

It appears that the recommendations of the Health Reform Implementation Council go against the intent of the Affordable Care Act.

Healthcare Is Better and More Affordable Because of Health Reform

Sen. John Kerry | Posted 05.23.2012 | Politics
Sen. John Kerry

Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law our landmark universal health care reform. The 24/7 news cycle left little time to provide historical context, but it was a milestone a century in the making. One day a vote for health reform will be remembered the same way as a vote for the Civil Rights Act.

Romney's 'Assault' Attack Contradicts Former Stance

AP | By STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 02.11.2012 | Politics

BOSTON -- Mitt Romney faulted President Barack Obama's original push to require church-affiliated employers to pay for birth control as an "assault on...

Santorum: Romney 'Absolutely Incapable' Of Making Case Against 'Obamacare'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 02.06.2012 | Politics

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is down, but not out. After a last-place finish in Saturday's Nevada caucus, the GOP presidential hopeful is upping ...

Gingrich Praised Rival For Plan He Now Attacks

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich praised the health care law that his rival for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, sign...

The States With The Most (And Least) Residents With Health Insurance

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 11.06.2011 | Healthy Living

Yet again, Massachusetts has the most residents who have health insurance, and yet again, Texas has the most uninsured residents, according to a new G...

Elise Foley

Tim Pawlenty: 'Obam-neycare' Modeled After Mitt Romney Health Care Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.12.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty criticized fellow GOP contender Mitt Romney on Sunday for his health care law, saying "Obam...

The Birth Of RomneyCare -- And Why Mitt Can't, And Won't, Back Away

Boston Globe | Posted 07.30.2011 | Politics

The former governor has faced a fusillade from the right for the plan they call RomneyCare. But a look back at the birth of the Mass. law shows why he...

The Doctor Will See You in 174 Days

Tom Silva | Posted 07.27.2011 | Politics
Tom Silva

Covering people remains the right thing to do but Romneycare in Massachusetts continues to provide a real-life test case for universal healthcare.

Massachusetts Health Plan Launched Under Mitt Romney Gets High Marks

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A large majority of Massachusetts residents are satisfied with the commonwealth's subsidized health plan, which has components ...

Health Reform: Throwing Good Money After the Bad

Marcia Angell, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Marcia Angell, M.D.

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it. They have a point.

Mass. Hospital Sues Over Cost Of Universal Health Care

The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

A hospital that serves thousands of indigent Massachusetts residents sued the state on Wednesday, charging that its costly universal health care law i...