Wednesday, October 04, 2006
The new Massachusetts health insurance law "contains a little-known excuse: The mandate insurance that all residents have coverage by next summer does not include children," the Boston Globe reports. The law requires residents ages 18 or older to obtain health insurance by July 1, 2007, or be penalized on their income taxes.
Officials with the administration of Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said it was a mistake, which the exclusion was not addressed sooner, and the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services has asked the Legislature to make "technical corrections" to the law that will expand the mandate to contain children and also to make other changes. Leaders in the state Legislature "said they are willing to study the issue soon, but [added] that forcing parents to insure their children might be unenforceable and unnecessary, because most parents willingly insure their children when they buy coverage for themselves," the Globe reports.
posted by kanth
@ 1:56 AM
permanent link | Post a Comment |
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home