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How to Win In Boston: Race, Class, or Being Michelle Wu

November 9, 2013 By Benjamin Day 3 Comments

% Votes for Ayanna Pressley, by Precinct

Boston's 2013 municipal election was extraordinary not just as the first open Mayoral race in twenty years or the free-wheeling preliminaries, but because Marty Walsh and Michelle Wu secured victory with very unorthodox neighborhood … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2013 Elections, Annissa Essaibi-George, ayanna-pressley, boston, elections, jack kelly, jeff-ross, john-connolly, Martin Keogh, marty-walsh, mayor, michael-flaherty, Michelle Wu, Stephen Murphy

State Votes to Change Its Most Cost-Effective Health Plan [Edited – see header note]

August 15, 2012 By Benjamin Day 4 Comments

Note: I've left this post unmodified, but there is a factual inaccuracy I want to correct. The law does not require MassHealth to entirely phase out its fee-for-service plan: it can implement an alternative payment plan that keeps … [Read more...]

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Cost Control Legislation in Gridlock: Is Hospital Market Power Actually Driving Health Care Costs?

July 18, 2012 By Benjamin Day 6 Comments

News is getting out that the conference committee tasked with reconciling the health care cost control bills in the House and the Senate has run into areas of gridlock, and is running out of time. One of the key areas of contention is … [Read more...]

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Blue Cross ACO Drives Up Costs, Boston Globe Coverage Tries to Spin Savings

July 12, 2012 By Benjamin Day 1 Comment

The Globe today published a front-page article, "Blue Cross plan shows reduction in spending." The piece is about Blue Cross's new contract for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and it suffers from one major problem: both academic … [Read more...]

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Massachusetts Health Reform Outcomes Paint Troubling Picture for National Reform

October 25, 2011 By Benjamin Day 3 Comments

Mass-Care and Massachusetts Physicians for a National Health Program today released a comprehensive new report on the outcomes of the Massachusetts Health Reform law, as well as analysis of 5 years of media coverage of the law. The results … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: affordable care act, chapter-58, health-care, health-reform, massachusetts health care reform, massachusetts-health-reform, obama, romney

The Year’s Most Predictable “Bombshell”: Accountable Care Organizations Won’t Work

June 22, 2011 By Benjamin Day 7 Comments

WBUR's online health care blog, "CommonHealth," has a flashy headline article today titled  Massachusetts Attorney General Drops Health Reform Bombshell. What's the bombshell? That the state's proposal to control health care costs by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accountable-care-organizations, attorney-general-martha-coakley, cost-control, deval-patrick, health, health premiums, health-care, health-care-costs, health-reform, managed-care

Mass. Doctors Snub State Health Reform As Model for Country, Pick Single Payer

October 21, 2010 By Benjamin Day Leave a Comment

The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) yesterday released its annual Physician Workforce Study (a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians in the state), which, as in recent years, showed very serious shortages in primary care. However, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doctors, health-care, health-care-reform, health-reform, massachusetts-health-reform, massachusetts-medical-society, medicare-for-all, mms, obamacare, physicians, single-payer

Health Reform Part 2: Cost Control and Accountable Care Organizations

October 7, 2010 By Benjamin Day 2 Comments

So the task force on Payment Reform issued a report declaring (without actually bother to prove) that our fee-for-service payment system, by which we reimburse physicians per visit or per procedure, was driving up costs by giving them an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accountable-care-organizations, cost-control, health-care, health-care-costs, health-care-premiums, health-reform, managed-care

Harvard Pilgrim’s Medicare Bailout & Health Care “Competition”

September 30, 2010 By Benjamin Day 11 Comments

Medicare Advantage plans were created in 2003 under George W. Bush and a Republican majority in both houses of Congress to privatize Medicare: it allowed seniors to choose a private insurance company to manage their Medicare benefits … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charlie-baker, harvard-pilgrim, health-care, health-insurance, health-reform, medicare, medicare-for-all, seniors, single-payer, single-payer-health-care

The Intimidating Politics of Controlling Health Care Costs: Why We All Face the Single Payer Reform

April 19, 2009 By Benjamin Day Leave a Comment

An Open Letter to Senator Edward Kennedy Dear Senator Kennedy - The crisis being induced by high and rapidly rising health care costs in the United States is well known.  It has become the #1 issue for workers, most businesses, and … [Read more...]

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ssteingraber1Dr. Sandra Steingraber@ssteingraber1·
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One of the women now in leg shackles and handcuffs for blockading fossil fuel build-out in Weymouth is Rev. Betsy Sowers, Minister for Earth Justice at Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Here’s what she looks like standing behind the pulpit rather than in front of a judge’s bench https://twitter.com/wendywendy48/status/1204791435423207424

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@ssteingraber1 @CharlieBakerMA Two hours + since arrests occurred and @MassGovernor’s constituent services is unaware that six women currently sit jailed, handcuffed, leg shackled at Quincy District Courthouse.

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CFigueresChristiana Figueres@CFigueres·
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There’s no other option. #Countdown @TED #ClimateEmergency @GlobalOptimism #COP25 @nowthisnews https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1203842446590914560

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‘We have to reduce emissions to 1/2 of what we have by 2030. There’s no other option.’ — The architect of the Paris Agreement has launched a new climate initiative called Countdown

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saidbylaurasaid by laura@saidbylaura·
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Reading: @VanessaLRule's blog post from #COP25. If you are felling inspired to join our growing movement of mothers for bold climate action, head over to @MothersOutFront and say hi! Everyone is needed and everyone is welcome.
https://www.mothersoutfront.org/madrid_cop25_day_2

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ProfStrachanProf Peter Strachan@ProfStrachan·
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#ClimateChange: Greenland Ice Melt Accelerating

"The assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period"

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The “nihilistic forces” Volcker refers to have taken full ownership of your Republican Party. They are one and the same.

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Paul Volcker's final warning in today's FT: https://www.ft.com/content/2389d7ec-1b3c-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4

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