The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the healthcare reform legislation means women who currently have insurance coverage for abortion services could lose this coverage in the new system. This amendment makes it virtually impossible for private … [Read more...]
Republicans attack, Democrats react. Awful.
Kudos to Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson as the only Democratic congressperson in the last hour to comment on the ridiculousness of Republican claims about the Health Reform bill being debated now (live on C-SPAN). The Repubs criticize the debt … [Read more...]
Protesters Serenade Health Insurance Confab With Ode to Public Option
AHIP is the powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network looking to stop them - with song. AHIP and other insurance and HMO interests … [Read more...]
Rebuttal to Kathleen Parker’s Column on Abortion and Health Reform in the Washington Post
In today's Washington Post, Kathleen Parker acknowledges that the bills in Congress don't require federal funding of abortion services, but she then abandons the facts and goes on to repeat baseless anti-choice talking points. The truth is … [Read more...]
Romneycare?
Apparently CNN couldn't find anyone in Massachusetts to talk to about how the plan came together. After lines like this, "If Washington wants health care reform with bipartisan support, consider what Republican Gov. Mitt Romney accomplished … [Read more...]
Mass Taxpayers on Health Reform – Stay the Course
The Legislature’s recent decision to cut the fiscal 2010 budget for Commonwealth Care as part of the state’s enormous fiscal crisis has led to renewed claims that health reform is unaffordable. In particular, the issue of … [Read more...]
3 Health Care Working Group Meetings of Patrick Transition Team
Meeting info from a colleague who is Chair, Health Care Committee, Mass. League of Women Voters (BTW for years the League has been a staunch supporter of Single Payer Universal Coverge reform)Health Care Working Group public meetings:1. … [Read more...]
Health reform – wishing for something does not make it so. Let’s keep at it.
As a preface, please know that we who are on the front-lines of health care delivery (I'm a nurse) desperately want reform to succeed if it places the needs of our patients and our commuities, and the long-term health of our Commonwealth … [Read more...]
8/17 7:30 pm-ish WRKO 680 AM Talk Radio on MA Health Plan
Heads up for anyone that's interested--sorry for the late notice. I'll be on the Todd Freiburg show talking about concerns related to the Chapter 58 law … [Read more...]