BOSTON – Massachusetts taxpayers will pay a hefty price of more than $160 million over the next decade to cover federal expansion of healthcare coverage mandated under Obamacare, according to a new report by the Pioneer Institute.
The report, authored by Joshua Archambault and Lauren Corvese, examines the potential budget impact of the Health Insurer Provider Fee (HIPF), a revenue-raising mechanism of the Affordable Care Act.
STATE HOUSE — When a transgender rights law kicks into effect Oct. 1 businesses should presume people are using the appropriate bathroom, but may inquire into people's gender identities when there is legitimate reason to believe they are using the wrong restroom, according to draft guidance Attorney General Maura Healey plans to issue Thursday.
The guidance, a mandate of the law, is intended to steer businesses over the terrain of the new law, which allows transgender people to use the public restroom or locker room that corresponds to their gender identity, rather than their anatomical sex. Businesses are already allowed to provide that type of transgender bathroom access, but the law will require they do so.
