The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization has been conducting workshops, asking about people's ability to pay for health insurance, and unsurprisingly they're finding that folks of limited means may well be impoverished by the personal … [Read more...]
Helping write the new health care law
Last night I attended a workshop on the new health care law, put together by folks from the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. It was well-attended -- about thirty mostly young-ish folks who were curious and invested in how the new … [Read more...]
GBIO still makin’ noise
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization is keeping the heat on the legislature to make the health care compromise something that actually provides, like, health care. Pretty poor showing from Senators -- what or whom are they afraid of?GBIO … [Read more...]
Two health care stories in the Globe
And neither really deal with the current DiMasi-Trav compromise, such as it is:*Eileen McNamara wonders how the working poor will fare under the eventual bill. These would be the folks most helped by an honest-to-God Medicaid expansion, … [Read more...]
Friendly’s is cruel: GBIO responds
Massachusetts' own Friendly's has decided to cut off health coverage to 454 workers: For all costs over $2000, the workers are completely out of luck. Horrible.Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, one of the major groups in the … [Read more...]