Mass. bill requires health insurance

The Boston Globe reports:

Every Massachusetts resident would be required to have health insurance on July 1, 2007, under a landmark healthcare bill the Legislature could send to Governor Mitt Romney as early as today.


The agreement, unveiled by legislative leaders yesterday, aims to increase coverage in phases over three years to include 90 to 95 percent of the uninsured, through the insurance requirement for individuals, along with a new assessment on employers that don't cover workers and creation of private, subsidized health plans for people who can't afford them on their own.

The 145-page bill is the result of more than four months of occasionally bitter negotiations. It melds ideas from the House, the Senate, and Romney, who put forth competing healthcare plans last year that have often seemed irreconcilable. The bill appears headed for law, given that Romney yesterday called it ''exactly what we'd hoped for."

Massachusetts is already a really bad place to do business.Now this new law which will drive costs up higher.I guess they don't want jobs in Massachusetts.