July 30, 2012 | 1:47 PM |

Let’s Make A Deal: Lawmakers To Release Compromise Health Cost Plan

FILED UNDER: Insurance, Money, Politics, cost, Mass. legislature

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Lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate have reportedly reached a sweeping compromise plan to cut health care costs and change the way medical care is delivered and paid for in the state. Details of the proposal will be released later today.

WBUR’s Bianca Vazquez Toness reports that if the measure is approved, it would “mark the most significant overhaul of the state’s health care marketplace since former Gov. Mitt Romney signed a law requiring most residents to purchase health insurance.”

House and Senate lawmakers will likely vote on the health care cost overhaul tomorrow. That will give them limited time to discuss what will likely be a complicated bill. All legislation has to be wrapped up before the legislative year ends at midnight. And there’s more than health care to complete. Like college sophomores during exam time, lawmakers this year have left a mountain of unfinished business until the last minute.

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Blogger, CommonHealth Rachel Zimmerman worked as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, most recently covering health and medicine out of the paper’s Boston bureau. Rachel has also written for The New York Times, the (now-defunct) Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the alternative newspaper Willamette Week, in Portland, Ore., among other publications. Rachel co-wrote a book about birth, published by Bantam/Random House, and spent 2008 as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rachel lives in Cambridge with her husband and two daughters. View all posts by Rachel Zimmerman →