Massachusetts Cuts Health Rolls

To deal with pressing budget cuts, and skyrocketing costs due to increased enrollment of their health insurance coverage mandate, Massachusetts is cutting 12% from the Commonwealth Care budget, the Boston Globe reports.

The article, from the Boston Globe, begins with:

"Overseers of Massachusetts’ trailblazing healthcare program made their first cuts yesterday, trimming $115 million, or 12 percent, from Commonwealth Care, which subsidizes premiums for needy residents and is the centerpiece of the 2006 law.

The board of the Connector Authority made the cuts as officials confronted two side effects of the recession: the state budget crisis and a surge in enrollment by the recently unemployed."

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