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Tell Us Why Birth Control Matters To You

June 20, 2012 By Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund 1 Comment

I think most of us here at BMG realize that birth control is basic health care for women, but some politicians disagree and want to roll back key protections for essential preventive care that were provided by health care reform.  That’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aca, affordable care act, birth-control, health-care, health-care-reform, planned-parenthood, politics

Is Medicaid (MassHealth) Preventing the Poor from Breaking out of Addiction?

May 26, 2011 By joshatpioneer 2 Comments

Lawrence Harmon of The Boston Globe had a very interesting article that highlights the intersection of medicine and public policy. The issue was the debate whether MassHealth, our state’s Medicaid program, should move to pay for Suboxone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care-reform, healthcare, masshealth, patrick

RomneyCare Forever!

February 13, 2011 By smalltownguy 5 Comments

Mitt Romney's speech to the CPAC convention shows that the greatest danger to the Republic is not from some hyper-ideological tea-partier, but from a hyper-ambitious arrogant technocrat. Romney's failure to mention-even once-the issue of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-presidential-race, health-care-reform, mitt-romney

The Tea Party Agenda: Is It Already Slip Sliding Away ?

January 5, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti 2 Comments

As the 112th Congress gets down to business, a major element of the Tea Party agenda, deficit reduction, seems to have already been reduced in scope, now seemingly becoming the object of negotiation and political theater. Having reached the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 112th-congress, budget-deficit-reduction, congressional-budget-office, democrats, health-care-reform, republicans, tea-party-movement

MA Leads! Public Option?

January 1, 2011 By Jack Mitchell 35 Comments

As a member of the middle class, I keep my head down, work and PAY. Pay through the nose, as of late. Should we get on Deval's back and ask for a Public Option? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care-reform, public-option

Mass. Doctors Snub State Health Reform As Model for Country, Pick Single Payer

October 21, 2010 By Benjamin Day Leave a Comment

The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) yesterday released its annual Physician Workforce Study (a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians in the state), which, as in recent years, showed very serious shortages in primary care. However, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doctors, health-care, health-care-reform, health-reform, massachusetts-health-reform, massachusetts-medical-society, medicare-for-all, mms, obamacare, physicians, single-payer

Are you a Mac or a Lynch? Take the Quiz (and Get Involved)!

June 30, 2010 By mac-dalessandro 6 Comments

There are a number of ways to get involved, both locally and from across the country, with some actions taking only a couple of minutes. As you saw from the quiz above, the differences between the incumbent and me are very clear.  Make … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9th-district, democratic-primary, health-care-reform, iraq, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, netroots, patriot-act, progressive, stephen-lynch, u.s.-house-of-representatives

Response to Stephen Lynch’s defense of health care NO vote

May 7, 2010 By seospider 5 Comments

Here is my letter: To the Editor: Congressman Stephen Lynch addressed Town Meeting on Wednesday evening and spent a considerable amount of time defending his no vote on health insurance reform.  Unfortunately there was no opportunity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care-reform, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, stephen-lynch

Where Have All The Private Doctors Gone?

April 27, 2010 By metoo 40 Comments

In 2003 70% of doctors owned their practice and in 2009 it stood at 30%, a dramatic reversal.  Most physicians now have gone to work for someone else. This change has snuck under the radar. It's really alarming.  However it hardly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doctor-patient-relationship, health-care-reform, onesy-twosey-practice, private-practice

Progressives, Its Time To Take The Offensive!

April 11, 2010 By steven-j-gulitti 9 Comments

Conservative columnist, David Brooks once pointed out that the Internet has had the net effect of not bringing us closer together, but rather, driving us further apart. By allowing individuals to coalesce into narrower, self-reinforcing … [Read more...]

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