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...ASSUME "SUPER" IS BETTER. Many cars won't benefit from super or premium high-octane gasoline. Regular unleaded gas is fine for most cars, and it's a lot cheaper. Check your owner's manual to find out what kind of gas you need...
...worst premium increases fell on families with incomes from 200 percent to 400 percent of the federal poverty level. These families now pay nearly five times as much for health insurance. Working poor families—earning anywhere from 134 percent to 150 percent of the federal poverty level—had paid no premiums before November, 2003. After the premium increase, they found themselves forced to pay $12 for every child enrolled in the program. These increases fall on families already struggling in the face of cuts to other social services and an economy that has left wages stagnant...
Fortunately, activists including members of the Harvard community are fighting the premium hikes. The Children’s Health Access Coalition (CHAC) has been working to reverse the cuts to state health insurance programs and they have had help from an innovative campus community service group called Project Health...
...When the premium increases went into effect, Project Health, which conducts a community service program out of Boston Medical Center, began asking its clients how the increased premiums and other changes to the state insurance programs were affecting their lives. The stories Project Health dug up, along with the CHAC’s activism, convinced state administrators to place a family cap on premiums, so families with multiple children enrolled in state health insurance programs won’t be forced to pay excessively high monthly fees. Project HEALTH is now working to collect statistics on the effect...
...proud that Harvard students are part of the solution to this problem. The Harvard College Democrats have already offered to help CHAC, and Project HEALTH is continuing and expanding its work. Other campus groups that care about public health should join these students to help roll back all the premium increases, because the state should not fill the budget gap by sacrificing the health of Massachusetts’ kids. The state is in fiscal crisis, but we are confident that, with the right priorities, children’s health insurance can be saved...