On the eve of his planned presentation at Boston's Symphony Hall, self-proclaimed “deficit hawk” Erskine Bowles has joined partner-in-crime Alan Simpson in putting out a new version of their federal budget plan. Though the details of the … [Read more...]
Federal House Republican Budget: Disaster For America. Worse For Massachusetts
Massachusetts would be disproportionately impacted by the Medicare cuts. As a relatively high-cost state, and with a major concentration of academic medical institutions that get extra Medicare reimbursements to allow them to teach the next … [Read more...]
Nothing’s really free, is it?
Someone recently put up a comment elsewhere on BMG criticizing the MA health care constitutional amendment campaign on the grounds that it was attempting to make health care "free". I thought about their words and it came to mind that … [Read more...]