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• Health Is Winner in Massachusetts Budget Talks.

  - 2004-06-16

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--After three years of deep cuts in human services, the Legislature is set to approve a budget that restores health coverage for tens of thousands of low-income children, people with HIV, and immigrants and that...

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• Disabled Costs Push Massachusetts' Medicaid Spending.

  - 2004-06-11

  By Alice Dembner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 11--Care for disabled people is the largest factor driving up spending on the state's Medicaid health insurance program for the poor, accounting for more than half of the soaring growth in...

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• Watchdog Group Raps Massachusetts Governor's Budget Plan.

  - 2004-02-17

  By Scott S. Greenberger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 17--Governor Mitt Romney's 2005 budget proposal relies too heavily on one-time money to patch up a projected deficit of $1 billion, masking problems looming in coming years as spending outpaces...

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• Massachusetts Restores Medicaid Coverage.

  - 2003-10-01

  By Scott S. Greenberger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 1--Massachusetts will begin restoring health insurance to thousands of low-income residents who lost it five months ago, but the state's retooled Medicaid program for the long-term unemployed will target...

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• Blue Cross Foundation to Donate $1 Million to Create Medicaid Policy Institute.

  - 2003-09-24

  By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 24--The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation will donate $1 million to create the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute, the goal of which is to provide independent, nonpartisan information, and...

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• Massachusetts Cuts Threaten Legal Immigrants' Health Benefits.

  - 2003-08-05

  By David Abel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 5--Some 10,000 of the state's poorest adult legal immigrants will lose their health insurance over the next week as budget cuts take effect. The cutbacks are being criticized by immigrant...

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• Massachusetts Medicaid Recipients May Face New Fees.

  - 2003-02-27

  By Alice Dembner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 27--About 150,000 Medicaid recipients earning less than $13,300 a year would face new fees for health care, and the state would close Worcester State Hospital for the mentally ill and the...

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• Critics Say Massachusetts Governor's Budget Cuts Target Courts, Human Services.

  - 2003-02-02

  By Rick Klein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 2--Governor Mitt Romney set off anger last week with his $488 million budget-balancing plan, which slashed health care benefits for thousands of the state's poorest residents, laid the groundwork for abolishing...

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• Massachusetts Lawmakers Set Budget at $22.9 Billion.

  - 2002-07-19

  By Rick Klein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 19--Ending a monthlong standoff, Massachusetts House and Senate leaders yesterday reached agreement on a $22.9 billion spending plan for this fiscal year that would eliminate Medicaid benefits for as many as...

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• Plymouth, Mass., Nursing Home Blames State for Its Demise.

  - 2002-07-14

  By Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 14--Sixty residents of Pilgrim Manor Nursing Home haven't yet found new homes, but the financially strapped Plymouth facility won't close until every patient has a place to live, state officials...

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