Health care law co-writer Rep. Patty Walrath (D-Stow) is not too happy with the MittRomnistration's new rules on what constitutes a "contributing employer" to health care:Under the proposed rules, a company is considered a "contributing … [Read more...]
Health care: The gutting begins
Remember the great $295 debate? That's the per-employee annual assessment for employers that don't offer health care -- the linchpin that held the whole deal together, in spite of Romney's cynical, toothless veto.Well, apparently that's too … [Read more...]
Home Care Home Run
Doesnt it seem that every time we turn on the TV or pick up The Globe that one politician or another is involved in some form of selfishness or similar lunacy? From the Bush administration sinking our foreign policy ship to our own … [Read more...]
Whew, we do need that $385 Mil in Fed Medicaid money
So, yes, I'll grant you that we do need the federal money but let's not settle for a tacit acceptance of the wasteful and dysfuntional system that we have before us.We cannot afford, for monetary and for humanitarian reasons, not to enact a … [Read more...]
Health Care: We get to keep the $385 Million (whew!)
One of the main incentives for passing the new health care law was the promise of new moneys from the feds: $385 million. This was in doubt because the law was supposed to have been implemented by July 1. It wasn't.Well, the feds have … [Read more...]
Playing politics with illness and care
Feel free to contact me ann@defendhealth.org to verfiy first-hand what my family went thru fighting to access needed care for my sister's health care needs after she developed the bio-chemical brain disease called schizophrenia. We … [Read more...]
State and nation both dismal on mental health care
And they're not in jail, shelters, or on the streets because of what President Reagan so infamously said "that's where they choose to be". They're there because we as society have failed them and their families. The evidence for … [Read more...]
It’s time to send the Amendment Assassins a message
SenateRobert A. Antonioni Robert.Antonioni@state.ma.us 109-E 722-1230 Steven A. Baddour Steven.Baddour@state.ma.us 513 722-1604 Frederick E. Berry Frederick.Berry@state.ma.us 333 722-1410 … [Read more...]
ConCon kills health care amendment without a vote on the merits
In a bad start to the afternoon, the Constitutional Convention has voted to effectively kill the health care amendment by sending it to a "study" without an up-or-down vote on the merits of the amendment. The vote was 118-76.Only 50 … [Read more...]
Sen. Moore moves to consign health care amendment to “study” (updated)
Sen. Moore (D-Uxbridge), a knowledgeable Senator, especially on health care (and perhaps the most boring speaker in the legislature), just made a motion to have a "study committee" take another look at the health care amendment, rather than … [Read more...]
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