Oops...While Hawaii's "Prepaid Health Care Act" required employers to provide health insurance for employees working twenty hours per week or more, there is no such requirement to provide coverage for employees working less than twenty … [Read more...]
McNamara column on target: “Insurance law far from cure”
...The one solution not on the table is the one that is the most obvious: Increase the assessment on employers who do not provide health insurance for their workers. The law now requires only that employers of 50 or more people kick in $295 … [Read more...]
MA Health Reform Implementation on NewsNight program Mon. 1/29, 7pm, Channel 14 in Metro Boston
NewsNight with Jim Braude is an evening news program on New England Cable News and will devote the Monday Jan. 29 show at 7pm to an update on implementation of the MA health reform plan known as Chapter 58. There should be a video of … [Read more...]
Now here’s one very smart response to the Bush – MA – CA sham reform plans; wake-up, people!
Permitting physician ownership interests in testing laboratories, imaging facilities, hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies would provide inducements to prescribe what they sell. Rather than assuming that everyone would resist temptation, … [Read more...]
Don’t be fooled by Bush’s health reform proposal
Under the president's proposal, workers who receive employer-providedhealth insurance would have to pay a tax on the cost of their benefitabove $15,000, the threshold proposed by Bush for the tax break.People with families who buy low-cost … [Read more...]
Reality-based politics and sound policy: 2 essential ingredients for meaningful health reform
The biggest objection to single-payer I have heard from Democrats is not that single-payer is not a good system, or even the best system, but that it will be attacked as socialized medicine and therefore is not politically viable. Of … [Read more...]
The Bird Flu Accident that Didn’t Happen in Austin, Texas
cross-posted from the excellent Seachange Bulletinthanks, sandy!The Bird Flu Accident that Didn't Happen in Austin, Texas gee, what were all those dead birds doing in Austin a few days ago? i sure as heck hope that folks down there … [Read more...]
Health care worth fighting for
Spending a few months rotating through a private facility, I found it unconscionable that patients needing urgent medical care were turned down at the door if they did not have medical insurance. I spent as much time treating lacerations … [Read more...]
I’m shocked! Guess who: He helped quash efforts in the State House to control pharmaceutical prices
...Finneran's guilty plea stems from his time in the Legislature. In a 2003 lawsuit over a plan to redraw voting districts, he testified that he had never seen the plan before it was released publicly; in 2005 he was indicted on three … [Read more...]
Unedited Account of ConCon Health Care Amendment Debate, Jan. 2, 2006
Rep. Walrath said, There's certainly concern about whether or not this amendment is ready to be adopted. The amendment itself would require that it be the obligation of the Legislature to enact and implement laws to ensure that no resident … [Read more...]
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