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Insurance meeting postponed
By Alice Dembner, Globe staff
The board overseeing the state’s health insurance initiative cancelled a meeting today at which it was scheduled to decide whether to raise premiums and copayments for Commonwealth Care, the state-subsidized insurance program.
The proposed hikes are designed in part to reduce the state’s cost for the program – a cost is currently being negotiated with the four insurers who run Commonwealth Care.
In a statement explaining the postponement, board chairwoman Leslie Kirwan said, “The bids we received [from the insurers] were not satisfactory.”
The board is expected to reschedule the meeting next month.
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