Thursday, June 29, 2006
At the rub of midnight on Saturday, a host of benefits hack from the state's Medicaid program four years ago would be restored, counting dental care for the state's poor and disabled adults.
Mass Health, the state's Medicaid program, would carry back coverage that was erased through the austere 2002 budget year, in which the state made huge expenditure cuts to the health program, which covers more than 1 million people statewide. Coverage for dream services, prosthetic limbs and dental care, among others, were all eliminated.
Those cuts would be reinstating July 1, brought back as part of the sweeping health care reform bill that passed in April. That law would finally remake the Medicaid system while require that all state residents have health insurance.
"If people get coverage, it has to be quality coverage," said Brian Rosman, policy director of the advocacy group Health Care for All.
Mass Health, the state's Medicaid program, would carry back coverage that was erased through the austere 2002 budget year, in which the state made huge expenditure cuts to the health program, which covers more than 1 million people statewide. Coverage for dream services, prosthetic limbs and dental care, among others, were all eliminated.
Those cuts would be reinstating July 1, brought back as part of the sweeping health care reform bill that passed in April. That law would finally remake the Medicaid system while require that all state residents have health insurance.
"If people get coverage, it has to be quality coverage," said Brian Rosman, policy director of the advocacy group Health Care for All.
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