Massachusetts moved a step closer to dramatically expanding health coverage last week after House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini said they’ve broken a legislative impasse blocking a major overhaul of health care. Appearing at a joint Statehouse …
Thousands of workers employed by some of the state’s top retailers, restaurants and hospitals in Massachusetts are relying on taxpayers to pick up the tab for their health care, according to a report released this week. The state spent nearly …
The Massachusetts House of Representatives has approved an ambitious health care initiative designed to extend insurance coverage to nearly all the roughly half-million Massachusetts residents who now lack it. The next step is for the Senate to vote on its …
House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi vowed to deliver a bill dramatically expanding health care coverage to the uninsured in Massachusetts but shied away from offering specifics. DiMasi said the bill, which he promised to place on Gov. Mitt Romney’s desk in …
Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly will seek at least a 10 percent cut in the state’s auto insurance rate when he makes a formal recommendation later this month. Reilly said auto insurers enjoyed hefty profits at the expense of …
