This is just depressing as hell: State House News Service and WBUR are reporting that the federal government will not support any MA health care reform that increases eligibility to Medicaid (MassHealth), which was a central tenet of all of … [Read more...]
Robert Rice wins in 2nd Worcester State Rep race
I suppose you'd call this a progressive pickup: Gardner Dem Robert Rice wins. Thanks to poster cephme for the heads up. Guess that Kerry Healey magic didn't work out so well. Sounds like Rice got pretty badly outspent, but still beat … [Read more...]
Event posted: Health care forum at Kennedy School, Thursday 6pm
I just posted an event to the calendar: a panel discussion entitled "Expanding Health Care Coverage: What Can States Do?", with health care heavyweights Charlie Baker, CEO of Harvard Pilgrim; Prof. David Cutler; and others. Thursday 2/9, … [Read more...]
A double-dog dare:
For all the giddy Deval Patrick enthusiasts out there, here's a press clipping to pin on the locker room bulletin board, as it were:Reilly supporters say the results were not surprising. The caucuses tend to attract more liberal activists, … [Read more...]
Patrick sweeps caucuses; Reilly says “What base?”
You saw the reports last night here; Boston Globe reports today that Deval Patrick takes two-thirds of the delegates to the convention in June.What the heck is going on here? You have Tom Reilly, respected (at least until recently) public … [Read more...]
Great Thud of Non-Event 2006: “Oil Independence”
Last year I predicted that Social Insecurity would be a candidate for the "Great Thud of Non-Event 2005". Not exactly a bold prediction, but it turned out to be correct. This year's is an absolute slam-dunk: "Independence from Mid-East … [Read more...]
deep thoughts…
Tom Reilly says he'll campaign without a running mate. Well, if all else fails, Tom, that's a pretty good idea. Oh yeah -- all else did fail... Ya know, I like some of the Black Eyed Peas' stuff... but is "My Humps" truly the single … [Read more...]
Picking our pockets
It's been thoroughly blogged on this site how certain businesses feel free to dine at the public trough, pushing their employees' health care costs off on the taxpayers. Remember the Free Care Top 20? And let's not forget that this is … [Read more...]
glitch
The previous story was from this morning. I fixed a link, clicked "Save", and it showed up as if it were brand new. It's not. Just FYI. … [Read more...]
One year of .08 Acres and a Donkey
How time flies -- sco's thoughtful, wry blog has been around for a year. At the BlogLeft gathering in December, I remember someone (Sen. Barrios?) asked him why he got into blogging; he said it was because he wanted to learn about the local … [Read more...]
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