The Massachusetts health care insurance reform law, St. 2006, c.58, informally referred to as Romneycare, and officially entitled An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care, is a state law enacted in 2006, signed into law by then-governor Mitt Romney. Romneycare was changed significantly by major amendments in 2008, 2010 and 2012, after Romney left office. The law mandates that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain a state-government-regulated minimum level of healthcare insurance coverage and provided free network-tiered health care insurance for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level (FPL), but ineligible for Medicaid. Partial subsidies were provided for residents who qualified that made between 151% and 300% of the FPL. The bill successfully covered states uninsured residents, half via Federal-government-paid-for Medicaid expansion (similar to an analogous portion of PPACA that is going into effect nationwide in 2014 in states that choose the PPACA Medicaid expansion) and half via the free and almost free network-tiered health care insurance for those not eligible for the expanded Medicaid program. The RomneyCare legislation also included tax penalties on residents that failed to obtain an insurance plan,
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:55:02 +0000
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