[DAC] Fwd: [Artfound-list] Good news on MA Health Care Reform

[Donna Penn]

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> Date: June 6, 2007 11:29:51 PM EDT
> To: artfound-list at artistsfoundation.org
> Subject: [Artfound-list] Good news on MA Health Care Reform
>
> News from the Artists Foundation
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> Greetings all,
>
> I have some great news to report out.  On June 5th the Connector  
> Board voted
> unanimously to change the definition of Gross Income to Adjusted  
> Gross Income
> contained in the  Regulations "Determining Affordability for the  
> Individual
> Mandate [956 CMR 6.00]"  These are the regulations that the MA  
> Department of
> Revenue will use to determine if someone is  exempt from the  
> individual mandate -
> the mandate that requires people to have health insurance.  The  
> Connector
> Authority Staff recommended the change to the board (This includes  
> Executive
> Director Kingsdale, Jamie Katz, Chief Counsel and other key  
> connector staff).
>
> THANK you to all of the artists who testified and to all of those  
> who sent in
> letters. We collected 40 or so letters on this issue (Note only 10  
> were
> collected for other regulations!)   Connector Staff mentioned that  
> at all three of
> the hearings it was made clear by those testifying that Adjusted  
> Gross Income
> was the fair and equitable way to measure income.  One Connector  
> Board Mem
> ber, Celia Wcislo, who was at all three of the public hearings,  
> made the case of
> the need to switch to Adjusted Gross Income to another board member  
> by saying
> "that artists had real businesses expenses- ie brushes, paint,  
> studio space,
> that were not counted in Gross Income" .
>
> Clearly the Connector not only heard our request but implemented it.
>
> I am asking if people can send in thank you emails/letters  
> addressed to the
> Connector Board, Executive Director Kingsdale and the Connector  
> Staff -thanking
> them for changing the defininition of Gross Income to Adjusted  
> Gross income.
> Please put the thank you in your own words.
>
> Please send these thank you emails/letter to me by June 14th so I  
> can make
> copies and distribute them in packets to the Connector folks.
>
> Email letters to:  afinfo at artistsfoundation.org
> snail mail: Artists Foundation 516 East Second Street #49 Boston MA  
> 02127
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kathleen Bitetti
> Artist
> Executive Director
> Artists Foundation
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Donna Penn
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