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Senator Moore's
Health Care Record
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Senator Moore will
continue to work aggressively to protect
Prescription Advantage, the state’s
prescription drug assistance program for
seniors and the disabled that was co-sponsored
by Senator Moore.
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Senator
Moore is also
committed to expanding MassMedLine, a toll
free information program that assists
qualified citizens with obtaining free
drugs from pharmaceutical companies, that
has helped about 13,000 citizens that has
obtained more than $7.8 million in relief
from high drug costs. For more
information, call 1-866-633-1617 or visit www.massmedline.com.
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Senator Moore is
strongly committed to developing a
comprehensive state health policy to guide the
Commonwealth in providing, regulating, and
leading a safe, affordable, high quality
health care system that serves all of our
citizens.
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Senator Moore was
a co-sponsor of the state’s Mental Health
Parity Law adopted in 2000 and is an advocate
of full implementation of the law and
increasing resources and services for mental
health and to serve those with disabilities.
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Senator
Moore believes
that technology in health care must be
expanded to bring greater safety, quality,
and affordability to the health care
system, and he is working to provide
assistance and encouragement for doctors
and hospitals that want to embrace new
technologies that could, according to the
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative,
save $2.5 billion a year. He has led
efforts to launch e-prescribing to reduce
errors and cost and he is committed to have
every hospital using computerized
prescription order entry systems within
three years.
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Senator
Moore supports
efforts to utilize measurement of quality
outcomes as a means of rewarding health
care providers administered through a
Massachusetts Health Insurance Cost
Containment Council composed of
government, health care, management and
labor representatives modeled on the
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment
Council.
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Senator Moore is a
long-time advocate of enhanced school health
programs supporting additional school nurses
for public and parochial schools and the
establishment of school-based health centers
to improve the access to quality health care
for Massachusetts’ children and youth.
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Senator
Moore is working
to reduce the number of uninsured
residents of Massachusetts through
expansion of Medicaid services and
promotion of affordable health insurance
through programs such as the Insurance
Partnership.
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Senator Moore is
strongly support the concept of “long term
living,” not just long term care, including
development of health savings accounts that
can be converted to long – term care
insurance to support home care, assisted
living, or skilled nursing facilities. I am
also the sponsor of the new Senior Care
Options (SCO) voluntary managed care plans for
seniors who are dual eligible for Medicare and
Medicaid to provide more cost-effective health
services to low income elders.
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Senator
Moore believes
that the answer to shortages in the health
care work force, such as the shortage of
nurses, does not lie in arbitrary and
simplistic staffing ratios, but in a
comprehensive policy involving improved
working conditions for health workers at
all levels of the profession, respect for
the role of each health professional by
other professionals and the public,
funding for scholarships, day care, and
other benefits to attract students to
health fields, support for mentoring
programs to allow experience nurses and
other health workers time to coach
newcomers to the field.
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