Blue Mass Group

Reality-based commentary on politics.

  • Shop
  • Subscribe to BMG
  • Contact
  • Log In
  • Front Page
  • All Posts
  • About
  • Rules
  • Events
  • Register on BMG

A Crumb For the Starving: Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008

May 13, 2008 By kyledeb Leave a Comment

[The] legislation would require the federal government to establish mandatory standards for medical and mental health care, replacing the voluntary standards that apply now in the network of more than 300 publicly and privately run jails … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 60-minutes, daniel-akaka, department-of-homeland-security, detainee-basic-medical-care-act-of-2008, edward-m.-kennedy, h.r.-5950, joseph-lieberman, julia-preston, new-york-times, nina-bernstein, of-america, richard-durbin, robert-menendez, roberto-lovato, washington-post, zoe-lofgren

Recommended Posts

  • MA needs emergency legislation for a safe, sane school re-opening (4)
  • Tuxedos, Childcare, and the OCPF (3)
  • President Biden Needs to Kill the Kill Switch (2)
  • CPAC an Orwellian Nightmare (1)
  • Hey Legislators, It's Time Randolph to Have a District! (1)

Recent User Posts

City Agriculture – March 7, 2021

March 7, 2021 By gmoke Leave a Comment

MA needs emergency legislation for a safe, sane school re-opening

March 6, 2021 By paul-schlichtman 4 Comments

The More Things Change . . . .

March 6, 2021 By bob-gardner 15 Comments

Marking Saint Patrick’s Day — How Shall We Handle Domestic Terrorism?

March 5, 2021 By SomervilleTom 25 Comments

George Washington and the Taliban

March 4, 2021 By Steve Consilvio Leave a Comment

The Dr. Seuss Excuse?

March 4, 2021 By johntmay 4 Comments

Recent Comments

  • jconway on The More Things Change . . . .Two things can be simultaneously true. Biden can be a su…
  • jconway on The More Things Change . . . .I agree with Kristoff that Biden is dead wrong on how he…
  • jconway on Marking Saint Patrick’s Day — How Shall We Handle Domestic Terrorism?The Church condemned the Brookline shooting and has noth…
  • Trickle up on MA needs emergency legislation for a safe, sane school re-openingVaccines are great, but not IMO a sine qua non So far, t…
  • bob-gardner on The More Things Change . . . .Interesting pivot, from your being uncomfortable with th…
  • Steve Consilvio on Marking Saint Patrick’s Day — How Shall We Handle Domestic Terrorism?You are taking me wildly out of context and responding e…
  • SomervilleTom on Marking Saint Patrick’s Day — How Shall We Handle Domestic Terrorism?Being born a white male is fundamentally different from…

Archive

@bluemassgroup on Twitter

Blue Mass. GroupFollow

Blue Mass. Group
Retweet on TwitterBlue Mass. Group Retweeted
BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
9h

Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

Reply on Twitter 1368539307624067076Retweet on Twitter 13685393076240670766Like on Twitter 136853930762406707622Twitter 1368539307624067076
Retweet on TwitterBlue Mass. Group Retweeted
brhodesBen Rhodes@brhodes·
6 Mar

It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

Reply on Twitter 1368292184584302605Retweet on Twitter 136829218458430260525992Like on Twitter 1368292184584302605112100Twitter 1368292184584302605
bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
9h

Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

Nathan Phillips@nathanpboston

Streets that put people first, not cars - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/03/superblocks/ via @BostonGlobe

Reply on Twitter 1368538749949378560Retweet on Twitter 1368538749949378560Like on Twitter 136853874994937856010Twitter 1368538749949378560
Retweet on TwitterBlue Mass. Group Retweeted
DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
18h

Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

Chris Lu@ChrisLu44

This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

Reply on Twitter 1368407610769162241Retweet on Twitter 1368407610769162241532Like on Twitter 13684076107691622411494Twitter 1368407610769162241
Retweet on TwitterBlue Mass. Group Retweeted
jonfavsJon Favreau@jonfavs·
6 Mar

“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

Reply on Twitter 1368257642964021250Retweet on Twitter 1368257642964021250219Like on Twitter 13682576429640212501120Twitter 1368257642964021250
Load More...

From our sponsors




Google Calendar







Search

Archives

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter




Copyright © 2021 Owned and operated by BMG Media Empire LLC. Read the terms of use. Some rights reserved.