Here's the deal. Despite advances in treatment, AIDS kills hundreds of people each year in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports that HIV rates have increased in recent years, with a cumulative 25% rise … [Read more...]
Enzi bill dead; MA health reform lives
A bill that would have swept away states' ability to mandate certain kinds of health coverage in insurance products -- the so-called Enzi bill -- has been defeated in Congress. It was being filibustered, and cloture failed by 55-43.Now, … [Read more...]
Rush Limbaugh: Drug Addict
To those of you with lingering questions about the status of public broadcaster and "big fat idiot" Rush Limbaugh's criminal charges of doctor shopping for prescriptions, Timothy Noah has an excellent summary and review of the recent … [Read more...]
More from Reilly on health care
MaverickDem posted about this already, but I'll just cut and paste a little more from Reilly's press release on health care. This is a good effort, and includes some ideas we've talked about on these very pages, er, bits: emphasis on … [Read more...]
On Our Own, or Together?
For example, is it better to force us all to pay to investigate the crimes some people are victims of, or to give us more private resources which we can choose to use to protect ourselves? That's one we've answered pretty definitively … [Read more...]
Photo-op props … but for what?
Eileen McNamara has a column today that basically says the same things that David said on Wednesday: Dems are chumps for sitting by Romney while he signed the health care law -- which he laughably claims to have "authored", BTW -- even … [Read more...]
Useful summary of health care bill
Couldn't we have used a graphic like this before the law passed? … [Read more...]
Focus!
With the signing of the health care bill, we see a few things coming into focus: There is really nothing Romney won't do to please the Norquistites and the religious right. If he were the guy he claimed to be in 2002 -- a can do, make it … [Read more...]
Q: Who are the biggest rubes in Massachusetts today?
A: That's right - there are Robert Travaglini, Ted Kennedy, and Sal DiMasi, along with a host of other Democrats, handing Mitt Romney the biggest gift his presidential campaign has received to date. How they can stand there and smile … [Read more...]
Surprise! Romney vetoes employer assessment
AP reports that, as expected, "Governor" Romney vetoed the employer assessment in the new health care bill. AP says he also vetoed several other provisions of the bill, but doesn't say what they were.Let's hope that the Democrats make … [Read more...]
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