How ironic that this news item pops up the week of the supposed deadline to buy insurance: BOSTON, Mass. - November 16, 2007 - The former CEO of the state's largest health insurer walked away with $19.4 million last year. When he … [Read more...]
Health care: Your testimonies
Again, today's deadline day to get insurance, if you don't already have it ... Longtime commenter Cos holds forth on his experience with the new health care "products", and makes an important clarification: Actually, for … [Read more...]
How’s that personal mandate going?
It was always going to be hard: Trying to force people to buy health insurance to get to universal health care. Tomorrow's the deadline for signup in one of the new plans to avoid a tax penalty. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day … [Read more...]
An Informative Article on Health Care
On a tip from Paul Krugman, I read Creative Destruction by Jon Cohn, which carefully considers the best case against universal healthcare, which is that when the government mandates universal coverage, there won't be enough profit-motive … [Read more...]
Personal care attendants hold largest union election in New England history
Personal care attendants (PCAs) in Massachusetts are voting in the largest union election in New England history. They are uniting for better wages, benefits and quality care for seniors and people with disabilities. Election results will … [Read more...]
Giuliani’s character pile-on
Saturday, The Globe's Brian Mooney was the latest newsman to call out Giuliani for his fibs about health care, in an admirably direct fashion:Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has made "socialized medicine" one of his … [Read more...]
Will the intiative process survive in Massachusetts?
According to the State House News Service:Sponsors of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing individuals the right to health insurance cleared all of their signature-gathering hurdles and won the first of two favorable votes (153-41) from … [Read more...]
Edwards in NH: “The poison fruit of corruption”
Edwards delivered his new remarks in an old fashioned New England Town Hall packed with at least 400 people maybe more and another 60 or so kids from nearby Phillips Exeter Academy sat upstairs in the balcony. We were all in a happy mood … [Read more...]
Giuliani and the underpants gnomes
OK, I'm on record as not a South Park fan. But Rudy Giuliani's health care "plan" does remind me of an old episode, in which the thieving "underwear gnomes" reveal their business plan: Here's Giuliani's … [Read more...]
Public vs. private competition = Awesome!
I like the direction of things! So, Blue Cross Blue Shield is not included in the state's employee health care plan, the Group Insurance Commission. Too expensive, and GIC chief Dolores Mitchell says tough luck, no Blue. Well … [Read more...]
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