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Health care access, affordability woes taint high Mass. insured rate
While 95.7 percent of working-age Massachusetts adults have health insurance, almost half are having trouble taking advantage of that benefit,…
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Obamacare fines double for many uninsured at tax time
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many people who went without health insurance last year are now seeing fines more than double under President Barack Obama&…
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Mass. crime and incarceration rates reflect decade-long national decline
STATE HOUSE — The past 10 years in Massachusetts have seen decreases in total crime, criminal case filings and convictions, researchers told a…
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Massachusetts suicide rate continues to climb
STATE HOUSE — More Massachusetts residents committed suicide in 2013 than died as a result of car crashes and homicides combined, and yet…
