Amendment #55 to H4461

Healthcare Mandate

Mr. Barrows of Mansfield moves to amend the bill by adding the following section:

SECTION X. It shall be the policy of the general court to impose a moratorium on all new mandated health benefit legislation until the latter of either January 1, 2016, or until the division of health care finance and policy has concluded review of, and published results from, a comprehensive review of mandated health benefits in effect on January 1, 2006.

While Chapter 58 was signed in April 2006, the mandate moratorium didn’t take effect until January 1, 2007.  During that time, the Legislature passed the prosthetic devices mandate b/f the moratorium took effect and expanded the mental health parity law in July 2008.