In 2006, Massachusetts passed a healthcare law that requires most state residents to have health insurance and provided subsidized health plans for low-income residents. The $26.8-billion Medicaid deal will stimulate a system in which hospitals are given a set, or global, budget to treat Medicaid patients instead of the current fee-for-service payments.
Many praised the deal, saying it will help the more than 1.3 million Massachusetts people who have Medicaid coverage and the hospitals that are devoted to indigent care.
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