Senate President Therese Murray proposed a total ban on all gifts and freebies to doctors from pharmaceutical companies, a move that would make Massachusetts the first state in the country to ban such gifts outright.
The measure is part of a set of healthcare reform measures Murray filed in a bill yesterday that also includes requiring all doctors statewide to adopt electronic medical records by 2015, allowing patients to choose nurse practitioners as primary care providers, and forcing public reviews of any insurance company efforts to boost annual premiums by more than 7 percent.
"There's going to be a climate change, and there has to be a climate change; otherwise our healthcare reform will implode, just under the costs," Murray said at a press conference at the University of Massachusetts Medical School yesterday.
Boston.com
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