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Massachusetts state health insurers to be required to cover vaccines, regardless of CDC guidance
Massachusetts mandates insurance coverage for state-recommended vaccines amid federal policy shifts and public health funding cuts, ensuring access regardless of federal guidance.
- On Thursday, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced insurers must cover vaccines recommended by the state health department regardless of federal guidance.
- This decision follows disruptions caused by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s restructuring of the CDC and firing of former director Susan Monarez last month.
- Kennedy faced intense bipartisan questioning at a three-hour Senate hearing Thursday after replacing a CDC vaccine panel with his own members, some who oppose vaccines.
- Over a thousand individuals, both current and past employees of the Department of Health and Human Services, demanded Kennedy's resignation, while nine former CDC directors criticized him as "dangerous" and described his conduct as unprecedented.
- Healey’s mandate aims to ensure vaccine access in Massachusetts amid waning federal confidence and growing regional efforts to set independent vaccine policies.
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Massachusetts state health insurers to be required to cover vaccines, regardless of CDC guidance
Massachusetts insurance carriers will be required to cover vaccinations recommended by the state’s department of public health. Democratic Gov.
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