Health Care Reform Case Study
This assignment is to discuss the major provisions of the Massachusetts health care reform laws of 2006. In April there were about fifty eight which were put in to the law. By putting these into effect they made a stand for the health care reform. It was then that Massachusetts could provide affordable health insurance for its residents. When the legislation met they came to a compromise in which it was reached by the then Governor Mitt Romney who was a republican, and was also joined by Robert Travaglini and Salvatore Dimasi. It was discussed and believed that everyone in the state should have health insurance, but they were in hopes that it would be affordable. They finally decided to make insurance affordable as long as they could use
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Fifth there was a purchasing of the commonwealth Health insurance connector and the intent of the connector is to link individuals without access to employer-sponsored insurance and firms with 50 percent or fewer workers that offer health benefits. Sixth the commonwealth care health insurance plan also known as CCHIP which will be available on a subsidized basis for those with household incomes up to three hundred percent of poverty and only for those who are 1- not eligible for mass health or Medicare 2- have resided in the states for the past six months with an employer contribution of at least 33 percent of premium for at least single coverage and about 20 percent premium for family coverage. The seventh is an unsubsidized component in the connector which will offer coverage to those with income about 300 percent of poverty and the eighth is the reform plan which provides substantial protection for safety net providers, These providers which include Boston and Cambridge and they argued so strongly that there was likely to be a residual pool of uninsured people to whom they would need to continue to provide in two major ways, and lastly the plan was to be financed by maintain the existing 320 million in assessments on the hospitals covered lives, also the federal safety net payments which is a contribution of federal waiver payments of about 610 million federal matching payments on the mass health expansions and added benefits and rate increase by an
Fifth there was a purchasing of the commonwealth Health insurance connector and the intent of the connector is to link individuals without access to employer-sponsored insurance and firms with 50 percent or fewer workers that offer health benefits. Sixth the commonwealth care health insurance plan also known as CCHIP which will be available on a subsidized basis for those with household incomes up to three hundred percent of poverty and only for those who are 1- not eligible for mass health or Medicare 2- have resided in the states for the past six months with an employer contribution of at least 33 percent of premium for at least single coverage and about 20 percent premium for family coverage. The seventh is an unsubsidized component in the connector which will offer coverage to those with income about 300 percent of poverty and the eighth is the reform plan which provides substantial protection for safety net providers, These providers which include Boston and Cambridge and they argued so strongly that there was likely to be a residual pool of uninsured people to whom they would need to continue to provide in two major ways, and lastly the plan was to be financed by maintain the existing 320 million in assessments on the hospitals covered lives, also the federal safety net payments which is a contribution of federal waiver payments of about 610 million federal matching payments on the mass health expansions and added benefits and rate increase by an