Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Boston April 04 Massachusetts is happy to become the first state to provide neatly universal health coverage with a bill passed overwhelmingly by the legislature that Gov Mitt Romney agreed to sign.
The bill is doing what health is suggesting and on other state is able to do so: it is providing mechanism for all of its citizens to enjoy health insurance benefits.
"This is probably about as close as you can get to universal," said Paul B. Ginsburg, president of the nonpartisan Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington. "It will definitely an inspiration to other states about how there was this compromise. They found a great way to get a major expansion of coverage that people could happily agree on. For a conservative Republican, this is individual responsibility. For a Democrat, this is government helping those that need help The individuals who can afford private insurance will be penalized on their state income, in case they fail to purchase. Businesses with more than 10 workers that do not provide insurance will be assessed up to $295 per employee per year. Every body agreed that the plan is expected to cover 515,000 people with out insurance within three years, about 95 percent of the state's uninsured population, legislators said, leaving less than 1 percent of the population unprotected. In 2003, Maine enacted a law that significantly broadened insurance coverage and combined employer payments with expanded government programs. That year, California enacted a law that required employer contributions, but it was repealed in a referendum in 2004. Massachusetts would be the first state who requires their citizen to have health cover.
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