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Bone marrow registry, healthcare company to pay $770000 for using models to ... - Washington Post

Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

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Bone marrow registry, healthcare company to pay $770000 for using models to ...
Washington Post
BOSTON — A bone marrow registry and medical laboratory company that used fashion models wearing high heels and short skirts to recruit potential donors will pay the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire $770000 for engaging in an improper ...
UMass Memorial fined for 'deceptive' donor registryWorcester Telegram
UMass Memorial cutbacks draw fireBoston Herald
UMass Memorial Healthcare to cut between 700 and 900 jobsMy Fox Boston
The Union Leader
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West Springfield eyes plan to change employee health insurance co-payments ... - MassLive.com

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West Springfield eyes plan to change employee health insurance co-payments ...
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By Sandra Constantine, The Republican WEST SPRINGFIELD – The Town Council during its meeting Monday is scheduled to receive a proposal regarding a section of Massachusetts General Laws that allows communities to set employee health insurance ...

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Three cheers for RomneyCare - Tribune Review

Posted today (19 hours ago)

New York Magazine

Three cheers for RomneyCare
Tribune Review
Mitt Romney wrecked it by requiring that Massachusetts residents purchase their own health insurance. In 2007, when RomneyCare became law, the federal government was picking up the tab for 45.4 percent of all health care expenditures in the country.
Browsing notesChicago Tribune (blog)
Three Cheers for Ann CoulterDaily Beast
Romneycare Becomes Obamacare, Then CoultercareAmerican Spectator (blog)
Canada Free Press -Washington Times -RedState
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Rick Santorum's claims about Massachusetts health reforms - Washington Post (blog)

Posted on Jan 30, 2012 (5 days ago)

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Rick Santorum's claims about Massachusetts health reforms
Washington Post (blog)
“In Massachusetts, everybody is mandated -- as a condition of breathing in Massachusetts -- to buy health insurance, and if you don't, you have to pay a fine. What has happened in Massachusetts is that people are now paying the fine because health ...
The Facts On Massachusetts Health ReformHealth Affairs (blog)
Massachusetts' Health Care Success Story and Why the Affordable Care Act is ...Center For American Progress
It's Tough to Hide From YourselfKSAL
The Decatur Daily -Huffington Post (blog) -Daily Caller
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New inner-city health center opens in Boston - Boston.com

Posted today (9 hours ago)

Boston.com

New inner-city health center opens in Boston
Boston.com
Fewer than one in four patients have private insurance and about half receive Medicaid. And 23 percent have no health insurance at all -- a startling figure in Massachusetts, where 98 percent of all residents have health insurance because of the ...
New Health Center Opens In RoxburyWBUR

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Mass.: Bone marrow donor recruiting case settled - The Associated Press

Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

The Associated Press

Mass.: Bone marrow donor recruiting case settled
The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — A bone marrow registry and medical laboratory company that used fashion models wearing high heels and short skirts to recruit potential donors will pay the state of Massachusetts $520000 for engaging in an improper marketing practice, ...
Mass.: Bone marrow donor recruiting cases settledHouston Chronicle
Bone marrow registry settles allegations for $520KLegal News Line
State Wraps Up Bone Marrow Investigation: Slams UMASS MemorialNew Hampshire Public Radio
Boston Herald
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Mitt Romney Defends Massachusetts Individual Mandate Despite Pushback - ABC News (blog)

Posted on Jan 27, 2012 (8 days ago)

ABC News (blog)

Mitt Romney Defends Massachusetts Individual Mandate Despite Pushback
ABC News (blog)
Mitt Romney is standing by the Massachusetts health care plan he signed into law, specifically the individual mandate that requires all individuals to carry insurance, despite pushback by his rivals that it impinges on individual rights.
Santorum: Romney, Obama healthcare mandates one and the sameLos Angeles Times
Fact check: Florida GOP debateUSA TODAY
Scoring Last Week's RomneyCare DebateWall Street Journal
MedPage Today -Washington Post (blog) -PolitiFact
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Massachusetts Health Experience: What the Nation Can Expect? - National Journal

Posted on Jan 25, 2012 (10 days ago)

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Massachusetts Health Experience: What the Nation Can Expect?
National Journal
An analysis in the journal Health Affairs shows the 2006 Massachusetts health reform initiative has, not unexpectedly, gotten health insurance coverage to most of the state's residents. It has cut emergency-room visits and people say they feel they are ...
Mass. health insurance law: More coverage, more expensiveBoston Globe
Health reform lessons for Oregon and other states from the Massachusetts ...OregonLive.com
The state of Massachusetts health reform, in 3 chartsWashington Post (blog)
International Business Times -Reason Online (blog) -WBUR
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New Healthcare Payment Plans Could Keep Prices Down - WAMC

Posted on Jan 30, 2012 (5 days ago)

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New Healthcare Payment Plans Could Keep Prices Down
WAMC
Since 2009, over 1.2 million Massachusetts residents have signed onto what's known as "global payment" health care plans. The increasingly popular health insurance option is aimed at lowering premium prices by changing how patients are charged.
In Massachusetts, Blues Ink Pact with Partners HealthCare to Implement ...DARKDaily.com - Laboratory News

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Odds and ends: Cats in sinks, man mistakenly declared dead four times, FBI ... - OregonLive.com

Posted today (6 hours ago)

OregonLive.com

Odds and ends: Cats in sinks, man mistakenly declared dead four times, FBI ...
OregonLive.com
A Norwegian insurance company is monitoring its employees' bathroom breaks via flashing lights that let managers know if workers spend more than eight minutes total away from their desks. That's eight minutes per day. And to think there are celebrities ...

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Coakley says insurance company should pay over bridge collapse - Legal News Line

Posted on Feb 1, 2012 (3 days ago)

Coakley says insurance company should pay over bridge collapse
Legal News Line
BY BRYAN COHEN SUFFOLK, Mass. (Legal Newsline) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a lawsuit on Wednesday against an insurance company for allegedly failing to compensate the state after a bridge in Grafton collapsed due to shoddy ...
Insurance co. sued in Grafton bridge failureWorcester Telegram

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What One Massachusetts Tax Watchdog Says About 'RomneyCare' - Forbes

Posted on Jan 30, 2012 (5 days ago)

Forbes

What One Massachusetts Tax Watchdog Says About 'RomneyCare'
Forbes
Romney's biggest nemesis is himself; namely his signing of the Massachusetts Healthcare Reform Act in April 2006. The law is largely seen as the precursor to what will later be called ObamaCare by Republicans and Fox News pundits.
Romney's Massachusetts mandate deceptionWashington Examiner (blog)
Americans don't know much about Romneycare — except that it's very similar to ...Washington Post (blog)
GOP opponents' attacks on Romney healthcare record fail to land a blowThe Hill (blog)
Chicago Tribune (blog) -Politico -Human Events
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Groups want police to be better prepared to deal with mentally ill - Worcester Telegram

Posted today (16 hours ago)

Globe and Mail

Groups want police to be better prepared to deal with mentally ill
Worcester Telegram
Based on an examination of current practices, the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts and the Association for Behavioral Healthcare recommended a series of initiatives to prevent cycling of people who have mental illnesses through ...
Mentally ill need treatment, not jailWWLP 22News

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Cities and towns ponder health insurance changes - Enterprise News

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Cities and towns ponder health insurance changes
Enterprise News
What happens is that a community adopting the law has the same flexibility as the state's insurance plan, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Groups Insurance Commission, referred to as the GIC. The GIC is generally thought of as less generous than ...

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Retailers join up to cure health insurance woes - Boston Herald

Posted on Jan 30, 2012 (5 days ago)

Retailers join up to cure health insurance woes
Boston Herald
He is among those hoping that business groups such as the Retailers Association of Massachusetts are going to come up with cheaper options. “It's a tremendous expense to treat our employees the way we want to treat them,” he said.
Moms, Pops and Chains Tackle Medical Insurance IncreasesRetailWire (registration)

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Car Policy For Less, But Only If You Call - New York Times

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New York Times

Car Policy For Less, But Only If You Call
New York Times
His hefty auto insurance premium on his two cars — he was paying $2537 a year — seemed a juicy potential target. But he said he “dillydallied,” and didn't call his insurer, Liberty Mutual, until a couple of weeks ago, shortly after AARP contacted him ...

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The Success Of "RomneyCare" In Massachusetts - Forbes

Posted on Jan 20, 2012 (15 days ago)

Forbes

The Success Of "RomneyCare" In Massachusetts
Forbes
I have two young daughters. When they left Brazil in 2010, they had no US health insurance. One has a mild case of childhood epilepsy. Lucky for my daughters, they live in Massachusetts. The state's healthcare reform has no serious opposition.
Wide differences among states on planning for coverage under Obama's health ...Washington Post

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Mansfield-based C&S Insurance Acquires Colonial Insurance - Citybizlist (press release)

Posted on Feb 1, 2012 (2 days ago)

Mansfield-based C&S Insurance Acquires Colonial Insurance
Citybizlist (press release)
MANSFIELD, Mass. -- C&S Insurance Agency, Inc. today announced that it will acquire Colonial Insurance of Mansfield, the town's oldest insurance agency. The merged entity, which will operate under the umbrella of C&S Insurance, will represent the ...

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Roman Catholic Bishop Timothy McDonnell denounces contraceptive mandate in new ... - MassLive.com

Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

MassLive.com

Roman Catholic Bishop Timothy McDonnell denounces contraceptive mandate in new ...
MassLive.com
By Stephanie Barry, The Republican SPRINGFIELD – Springfield's Roman Catholic Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell has joined religious leaders everywhere in a fierce reaction to the national healthcare law's mandate to include free contraceptives and other ...
Romney shifted on 'conscience' issueBoston.com
Romney Pledges To Eliminate HHS Mandate On 'Day One' Of PresidencyEurasia Review
Health-care coverage must have a conscienceSentinel and Enterprise
Washington Examiner
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Reform And Reality - WBUR

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Reform And Reality
WBUR
Employers in Massachusetts routinely complain about health insurance costs rising two, three or…eight times faster than inflation. But not so much lately. As of April 1st, the base rates for small businesses insurance premium increases will average ...

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Stoneham Savings Bank is Now a Division of Salem Five Bancorp - Patch.com

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Stoneham Savings Bank is Now a Division of Salem Five Bancorp
Patch.com
Both banks currently operate insurance subsidiaries; the merger of the banks' insurance divisions creates one of the largest bank-owned insurance companies in Massachusetts. Last year, Salem Five acquired Argeros Insurance of Reading.

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SBLI of Massachusetts Re-Launches Website - MarketWatch (press release)

Posted on Jan 31, 2012 (4 days ago)

SBLI of Massachusetts Re-Launches Website
MarketWatch (press release)
WOBURN, Mass., Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (SBLI), a leading provider of affordable, dependable life insurance, has re-launched its SBLI.com website with new features, which make it an ...

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Mass. House OKs unemployment insurance rate freeze - Boston.com

Posted on Jan 18, 2012 (17 days ago)

Live Insurance News

Mass. House OKs unemployment insurance rate freeze
Boston.com
By Bob Salsberg AP / January 18, 2012 BOSTON—Massachusetts House lawmakers approved a $130 million spending bill on Wednesday that included a freeze on the unemployment insurance rate paid by businesses, but rejected another amendment that would have ...
Lawmakers in Massachusetts approve rate freeze for the state's unemployment ...Live Insurance News

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MassMutual reaffirms commitment to make life insurance more broadly available ... - STLtoday.com

Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

MassMutual reaffirms commitment to make life insurance more broadly available ...
STLtoday.com
Conditions such as coronary artery, valvular and congenital heart diseases are being regularly reviewed by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), a move that helps more people protect their families financially despite wrestling with ...

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VIDEO: Gov. Patrick Celebrates Burlington's IDBS's New Healthcare Center of ... - Patch.com

Posted on Jan 25, 2012 (10 days ago)