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Lawmaker calls on Romney Administration to demonstrate good faith in health care reform |
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Senator Moore wants IG report on Uncompensated Care Pool Management Improvements addressed |
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January 10, 2006 - In a letter dated November 14, 2005, Senator Richard T. Moore (D-Uxbridge) called on Governor Mitt Romney to implement Uncompensated Care Pool management reforms recommended in a November report prepared by the state’s Inspector General. Mr. Moore is Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Care Financing and the lead Senate conferee working to resolve legislative differences over a major bill to expand access to care. “As we move forward with health care reform, I believe that the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, under leadership specifically charged with implementing the Inspector General’s recommendations, would help to achieve significant improvements in the administration of the Commonwealth’s safety net care system,” the Senator wrote in his November 14th letter to the Governor. “If the Legislature is to undertake statutory reforms in health care, we need to be convinced that the administration is fully prepared to implement those reforms even when they may have initially proposed different policy options. An important step in that regard would be to follow through on the recommendations of the Inspector General,” Moore concluded. The IG report, to which Senator Moore referred, was requested by the Legislature through the passage of Chapter 204 of the Acts of 2004, a bill that became law without the Governor’s signature. Senator Moore has yet to receive a response from the Romney Administration in the eight weeks since his letter was delivered. |
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