A: Force them to buy health insurance if they want to live here.House Speaker Sal DiMasi has in large part signed on to the Mitt Romney plan for addressing the health care crisis.  DiMasi announced his support for an "individual … [Read more...]

Hey, this is cool: Joshua Kendall's nifty, elegant article in the Globe on the weird history of our employment-based health care system ("Why is healthcare tied to the workplace?") has been noticed by a couple of observers … [Read more...]

If you weren't mad enough about our government's response to Katrina or the state of our national health care non-system, see this article from the LA Times (reg. required but recommended -- thanks to cousin Erik in LA for the … [Read more...]

Sorry for such late notice: If you can, call your state Reps and Senators today to demand significant health care reform. This is an action in conjunction with the MassACT coalition, who is pushing the most significant and ambitious of the … [Read more...]

You know the Monty Python skit where John Cleese walks into a cheese shop, asks Michael Palin for dozens of different kinds of cheese, only to find there's actually no cheese?MOUSEBENDER:Have you in fact got any cheese here at … [Read more...]

I was reading this article about kids losing their health care due to a change in computer systems  in the Globe yesterday, and saw a familiar name towards the end:''It's not their fault that the state is changing computer … [Read more...]

If you're planning on going to the Oktoberfest in Harvard Square tomorrow, keep an eye out for folks  in royal blue GBIO (Greater Boston Interfaith Organization) t-shirts, collecting signatures for the MassACT health care ballot … [Read more...]

This is welcome news:Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick will deliver a speech today endorsing a plan [The Health Access and Affordability Act, written by Health Care for All] to establish universal health coverage [sic] in … [Read more...]

Here's the first of a hopefully longer series of stories about negotiating the treacherous waters of health care in MA. We've gotten some personal stories in some of the comment threads -- I'll put them on the front page as well. I've … [Read more...]

In 2002 I was a controller at a public relations firm.  During thatyear I decided to take a sabbatical, volunteer for organizations andcauses important to me.  I started independent consulting, becomingself-employed, while … [Read more...]