{"id":797,"date":"2008-03-21T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:59:00","slug":"state-ma-health-plan-underfunded-the-boston-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"State (MA) health plan underfunded &#8211; The Boston Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/state_health_plan_underfunded\/?page=full\">State health plan underfunded &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state&#8217;s new subsidized health insurance program will cost &#8216;significantly&#8217; more than the $869 million Governor Deval Patrick proposed in his 2009 budget just two months ago, the state&#8217;s top financial official said yesterday, after insurers were granted an increase of about 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>To close the gap, the Patrick administration has asked insurers, hospitals, healthcare advocates, and business leaders to propose ways to cut costs and raise revenue. During two closed-door meetings in the last two weeks, several dozen proposals have been put forward, including raising assessments on insurers, hospitals, and businesses. The goals are to solve the short-term funding problem for next year and ensure the long-term survival of the state&#8217;s near-universal health insurance initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Kirwan, secretary of administration and finance, declined yesterday to discuss specifics of the proposals or the size of the budget gap, but said that without changes, the state doesn&#8217;t expect &#8216;to be able to live within&#8217; the proposed budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State health plan underfunded &#8211; The Boston Globe: &#8220;The state&#8217;s new subsidized health insurance program will cost &#8216;significantly&#8217; more than the $869 million Governor Deval Patrick proposed in his 2009 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State (MA) health plan underfunded &#8211; The Boston Globe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-universal-health-insurance","category-single-payer-health-care-state-efforts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}