Ai-Jen Poo, a gifted community organizer recently honored by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, will speak at the Greater Boston Care Congress on June 16th. The Congress will launch the Massachusetts … [Read more...]
Barrett Throws Challenges for 3rd Middlesex Senate
Mike Barrett wants back in the MA General Court. He intends to get there taking over what was Sen. Susan Fargo's seat and Carol Amick's before that. Nearly two decades ago, he was first in the House and then in the Senate when he lived in … [Read more...]
Defend family planning funding in MA
You’re not going to believe this. The national attack on women’s health has made its way to our home state. Last week, State Representative James Lyons (R-Andover) filed an amendment (#575) to the Fiscal Year 2013 state budget to cut … [Read more...]
Sen Brown scrapes for special interests
A few days ago, Sen Brown was o the hustings, decrying a tax on medical devices that helps to fund the Affordable Care Act, saying it'll cost jobs. Brown would repeal the act. Brown frames the issue as one of jobs vs. Obamacare. But … [Read more...]
6 – 3. A prediction
Without claim to prophetic insight, divination or any guidance beyond that which is provided to me by some slim knowledge of the actors involved, the stakes at play and the scope of the legal situation (and perhaps more than a little … [Read more...]
Ellen Goodman onto a great idea; improving living and lower health care costs
We need manadatory healthcare proxies in Massachusetts. It is responsible, caring and cost affective. " we know that 25% of all Medicare expenses are incurred by the 5% of people who are in their last year of life. One … [Read more...]
Health care is a seamless garment and other metaphors
If you don't like contraceptives, don't use them. You are allowed to be a cafeteria consumer of health-care services, but it's really a bad idea for your doctor or insurer or anyone else to filter science through an ideological litmus … [Read more...]
Women’s health is at stake in Massachusetts in 2012
This past weekend marked the 39th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v Wade. Yet, in spite of that landmark ruling, women’s health opponents have persisted in their efforts to erode access to sexual and reproductive … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Health Reform Outcomes Paint Troubling Picture for National Reform
Mass-Care and Massachusetts Physicians for a National Health Program today released a comprehensive new report on the outcomes of the Massachusetts Health Reform law, as well as analysis of 5 years of media coverage of the law. The results … [Read more...]
“Obamacare” and “Romneycare”
Is "Obamacare" the son of "Romneycare"? The newest installment of CommonWealth magazine’s “Face to Face” video conversations features two of the people best qualified to discuss that topic, which continues to be one of the most … [Read more...]
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