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HLA Attorney Testifies at Attorney General's Discount Health Plan Regulation Hearing
| October 16, 2009 | Link to article
Discount health plans, which are not insurance and do not meet Massachusetts’ mandate that all residents have minimum creditable coverage, are often marketed to consumers in intentionally confusing ways to give the illusion that they offer more healthcare coverage than they actually do. HLA attorney Audrey Perlow testified at the hearing, applauding the Attorney General’s decision to regulate discount health plans and offering suggestions to strengthen the proposed regulations. Use the link posted above to find additional information on the proposed regulations, a summary of the hearing, and a link to HLA’s testimony, all of which is posted on A Healthy Blog, the Health Care for All health policy blog.
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