News on Massachusetts

Special report: The legacy of Romney's healthcare Rx

2011-12-05T15:00:19Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - For many years, Rebeccah Pearson, a retail store manager in Newburyport, Massachusetts, was among the state residents who had to forego medical insurance. "It was pretty much pay rent and eat, or go to the doctor. I chose the rent and food," she recalls. "I would have to save up for two ...

The legacy of Romney's healthcare Rx

2011-12-05T14:30:16Z

Most in Massachusetts want state push on health costs

2011-10-21T15:30:11Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - Most Massachusetts residents want their state government to take action to reduce high healthcare costs that they blame on drug and insurance companies charging too much, a survey showed on Friday.

Massachusetts has almost universal healthcare insurance coverage thanks to a 2006 law driven by current Republican pres...

Health Care Reform.........Obama's Gift To You! Part 1

2010-11-03T00:18:12Z

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The Effects of Health Insurance on the Elderly in Massachusetts

2010-11-02T14:31:59Z

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Access

2010-09-11T16:43:25Z

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Mass. doctors likely to see pay cuts

2010-11-02T12:43:43Z

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Health care law's unfinished business: cost curbs

2010-04-25T17:45:20Z

What's it going to cost me?

That's the single biggest unanswered question about President Barack Obama's new health care overhaul law — and its weak spot.

Many experts believe the law falls short on taming costs, and that will force Congress to revisit health care in a few years.

While it seems hard to believe now, Republicans might want to participate in a debate over costs, perhaps opening the way for limits on m...

THE SUNÕS MOST READ STORIES*

2010-04-16T07:24:42Z

THE SUNÕS MOST

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1. Behind the walls of polygamy town. Apostate turns atypical upbringing into tour business.

2. GOP victory in Massachusetts signals trouble for Democrats. Close race draws Nevadans into election in final days.

3. Mont., isn't mentioned by name in the Senate's mammoth health care bill, but its 2,900 citizens are big winners in the legislation, thanks to the influence of Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.

After pushing for years for help for residents, many of whom suffer from asbestos-related illnesses from a now-closed mineral mining operation, Baucus inser...

6 hospitals to sue Mass., say shortchanged by law

2010-04-16T08:47:26Z

6 hospitals to sue Mass. for millions of dollars, say 2006 health care law shortchanged them

Six Massachusetts hospitals are suing the state, saying they were shortchanged by the 2006 health care law.

The hospitals claim the state violated a law requiring health care providers be adequately reimbursed for caring for Medicaid and

Centene Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

2010-10-22T07:31:35Z

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Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits

2010-10-22T07:26:41Z

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Massachusetts Looks to Change the Way Doctors Are Paid

2010-10-23T23:38:38Z

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Massachusetts now applying CON rules to surgery centers

2010-11-02T12:42:12Z

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Massachusetts Makes It Tougher to Build Clinics, Surgery Centers

2010-10-23T19:13:22Z

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Massachusetts May Ban Drug Industry Freebies for Docs

2010-10-23T10:03:19Z

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In Massachusetts, Businesses Push Back Against Universal Coverge

2010-10-23T10:02:45Z

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ban any gifts to doctors from drug makers

2010-10-22T23:03:50Z

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Beware of Candidates Touting Universal Health Care, Advisory Group Says

2010-10-23T11:07:40Z

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Health care spending highest in Northeast

2010-09-09T21:46:59Z

Health Care Spending Highest in the Northeast, Costly Elsewhere in U.S.

Staying healthy is a costly business in the United States, particularly in the Northeast, government statistics show.

Annual health care spending per person totaled $6,409 in New England and $6,151 in the rest of the Northeast, compared to a national average of $5...

Massachusetts TCU Basketball

2010-11-22T21:01:36Z

Massachusetts' Terrell Vinson and TCU's Nikola Cerina battle for a rebound in the second half of a men's NCAA college basketball game during the Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournament in Massachusetts' Sampson Carter drives along baseline against New Mexico State's Hernst Laroche,left, and Gordo Castillo in the second half of a men's New Mexico State head coach Marvin Menzies sends a signal to his team in the second half of a men's NCAA college basketball game against Massachusetts during the Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournamen...

UMass James Madison Football

2010-10-30T18:31:37Z

James Madison's Jamal Sullivan, right, dives into the end zone through Massachusetts defenders James Carven, left, and Vidal Nelson during the second quarter of an Massachusetts Republican candidate for governor Charlie Baker arrives for a news conference at the Bleacher Bar in Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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