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Article: Massachusetts Attempts Its Own Health-Care System Reform.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
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- July 23, 1996
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Jul. 23--Washington may have stalled on health-care reform, but Massachusetts has been attempting its own overhaul of the health-care system.
"We have the opportunity in the next nine days to do more for health care in this state than we've done in the last 10 years," said Sen. Mark C. Montigny (D-New Bedford), chairman of the health-care committee. "And the clock is ticking."
As Beacon Hill hits the home stretch this week, more than half a dozen health-care measures are in various states of completion. A bill to extend health care to 160,000 children appears to have enough bipartisan support to override Gov. William F. Weld's promised veto. At the other end ...