Federal bill could strip many of us of key health-insurance coverage

S.1955, a bill now in the U.S. Senate, could gut Massachusetts laws that require coverage of everything from alcoholism and infertility treatment to mammograms and maternity care.

The law, officially titled the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2005, is ostensibly aimed at giving small businesses a way to afford health insurance. Of course, given who runs the Senate, the law would do this in part by allowing insurers to offer low-cost plans that do not have to comply with existing state health-insurance coverage law (insurers could sue states that try to keep enforcing current mandates).

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