This, believe it or not, is the lead item on the Massachusetts Dept of Health and Human Services website: Turkey TipsImage: Color photo of a table set for a big meal, including a turkeyand text: "Want your Thanksgiving meal to be remembered … [Read more...]
More on Romney’s 9C cuts to the DMH budget
In the meantime, I found the link to Judge Ponsor's 106-page scathing ruling of 1/27/06. I strongly urge anyone interested in the welfare of the mentally ill -- and mentally ill children in particular -- to review this document and then … [Read more...]
Health care: What the decision-makers are hearing
From Health Care for All's blog, reporting on the public input meeting of the "Connector", the state's new agency charged with implementing the new health care law:Next up was a panel from the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO). … [Read more...]
More of what Romney’s budget cuts have done
Closing admission to the state mental health hospital system to all new patients and cutting 57 nurses and mental health workers and 16 pyschiatrists -- a move which may jeopardize the hospitals' national accreditation. Cut 40 positions -- … [Read more...]
Romney ’08: Not happening, folks. Move along.
Furthermore, we've got the Big Dig. Yeah, Mitt tried to get the 'Pike Authority under his thumb for a few years, and finally got it. That would have been a good move if he had been the hands-on managerial type we thought he was, and was … [Read more...]
Interesting polling on the health care personal mandate
John McDonough points to some interesting, and encouraging findings on the new health care law:Support varies for different elements: 88% support expanded MassHealth coverage for kids; 70% support requiring business to provide health … [Read more...]
Mitt’s cuts: It ain’t all just gazebos
Michael has a good post over at WonkNot, detailing some of the items in the $425 million that Romney cut:3,400,000 from Park and Beach maintenance173,000 from child care subsidies for low income families1,000,000 from head start … [Read more...]
A Proposal
So, I'm tired of all the infighting. I support both gay marriage and health care as a basic right that belongs in our constitution. I do not support attacking one right at the cost of the other, nor should anyone else. Instead of … [Read more...]
Here’s a pretty how-de-do!
Those familiar with W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's finest collaborative work, The Mikado, will recognize the title of this post. A few minutes into Act II, some of the main characters find themselves in a most unfortunate … [Read more...]
An Important Set of Questions About the ConCon Process
As we learned today the biggest item slashed in Romney's budget cuts are health care spending. Wouldn't it be nice that instead of mere partisan political posturing and rhetoric, we could see evidence of some strong leadership to … [Read more...]
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