"At that moment in time, she put out her hand, they put out their hand," recalled Christine Ferguson, the health-care aide to then-Sen. John Chafee of Rhode Island, another moderate Republican who had long worked on health reform. "The one misstep," said Ferguson, now a consultant, "may have been gi
Christine Ferguson, director of the Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange, says she expects to see a big shift to state control in the next few years. "Many of the states have just run out of time for a variety of reasons," said Ferguson. "I'd be surprised if in the longer run every state didn't wan
Date: Feb 16, 2013
Category: Health
Source: Google
Undoing Health Law Could Have Messy Ripple Effects
"At the end of the day, I don't think any of the major players in the health insurance industry or the provider community really wants to see the whole thing overturned," said Christine Ferguson, a health policy expert who was commissioner of public health in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was gover