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At 20th anniversary of Chapter 58, Mass. governor urges fresh push on health-care affordability
Summary
At a 20th-anniversary commemoration of Massachusetts's Chapter 58 health reform, Governor Maura Healey praised the law's legacy and announced she has appointed a working group to produce short-, medium- and long-term proposals to reduce health-care costs, saying state actions protected coverage for "270,000 households."
Governor Maura Healey used a 20th-anniversary event for Massachusetts's Chapter 58 health-care reform to both celebrate the law's achievements and press for new work to make care more affordable.
"Today, Massachusetts boasts the highest rate of health coverage in the nation at over 97%," Health Connector executive director Audrey Morris Gastire said early in the program, crediting the policy design, implementers and frontline assisters who enrolled residents. Healey told the gathering at Faneuil Hall that the law was "an all of the Commonwealth approach" and that state officials must now focus on cost.
"Now, last year we took some steps. We cut co-pays. We cut deductibles," Healey said, and added that when federal changes reduced…
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