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Coakley Unveils Sound Strategy for Health Care Reform

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For the content of her paper, it’s apparent why Coakley was awarded Health Care for All’s 2009 Health Care Leadership Award. She’s clear in her support of a strong public option, provides necessary reform strategies to contain costs including changing pay incentives and implementing systematic transparency.

“It is not enough, however, for everyone to merely have a contract with an insurance company. Particularly with an individual mandate, federal and state government must enforce strong consumer protection measures to ensure that those contracts translate into quality coverage” 

She has a firm grasp on the deterants to strong quality and safety and understands how those aspects of health care are linked to payment policies. 

She has the first hand experience to accomplish health care reform. As Attorney General, she reached a historic $17 million settlement with MEGA, an insurance company that misled consumers and unfairly denied coverage, and was also successful in banning the company from selling policies in Massachusetts.

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  1. Rake that muck, Herald, dig in deep, bloggers, but don’t hold your breath- Coakley’s made of senatorial material from surface to core. She has an ego? You mean she has an intrepid character. She’s ambitious? You mean she’s an incredible advocate for the Commonwealth and has the record to prove it.

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    p>Isn’t that an extreme position? Better to admit to mistakes, rare of otherwise, than to conceal or deny them.

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    p>Good for Coakley to make a thorough proposal for health care reform legislation.  It’s not clear she is or will be in a position to influence the debate or the vote (as it is likely to be resolved by the time she would take office) but at least she provides a proposal against which voters can judge her.

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    p>If she gets questions about her proposal, she should answer them just as she should have answered questions about the nature of her office’s involvement in the investigation into Boston City Hall records destruction between Oct 7 and Oct 22.  

    • The health care system is so busted, that even after the health care vote, follow-up reform will be essential. Coakley addresses this in her paper:

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      “Even if President Obama signs a final health care reform bill, federal and state governments will need to work with doctors, hospitals, nurses, insurers, and consumers to improve a complex system that badly needs repair.”

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      p>Check out her paper for the specifics steps she’d take to accomplish this as senator.  

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