It turns out that we've got a lot fewer uninsured folks in MA than 2004. There are big questions about who's got the best numbers, but according to the State, the ranks of the uninsured are down a whopping 19% since 2004. Wow. The press … [Read more...]
Health care and education debate tonight on WBUR
Tonight at 8pm on WBUR, the Dem Gov. candidates will debate on health care and education. I'm going to try to liveblog it. It'll go an hour -- thank goodness they're not going to try to shoehorn these complex issues into a half-hour … [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...]
Kuttner on health care
This was in Saturday's Globe, now also on The American Prospect's page:Is the new Massachusetts new health plan really a model for reform nationally? Advocates of universal health coverage feel they finally have their nose under the … [Read more...]
Ambivalently optimistic? Optimistically Ambivalent?
That's how I feel about the health care bill. I'm happy that more people will be covered under MassHealth (est. 92,500 by FY2009) or the new Commonwealth Care program (est. 207,500 by FY09); ambivalent, because the personal mandate … [Read more...]
Bruce is pissed about health care
"Differently Winged" friend Bruce at mAss Backwardsis upset about the moral hazard aspects of expanding health care, especially to the poor. I've been mixing it up on the comments to his post: take a look. … [Read more...]
ACT! coalition says “Sign it!”
OK, I haven't had a chance to read more than the Conference Committee PowerPoint pdf for the health care bill, which is a cheery summary. But the pro-health care reform ACT! coalition has urged the legislature to sign the bill. Here's their … [Read more...]
Trickle-down health care
Health care reform will likely end up in a cash bonanza for area hospitals; <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/04/02/healthcare_reform____with_a_dose_of_profit">Joan Vennochi and <a … [Read more...]
What if the “sensible center” isn’t sensible?
Regarding the possible health care compromise, Scot Lehigh asks, "Can the sensible center hold onto a delicate deal?" He's referring, of course, to the $295 per-employee per-year assessment compromise recently struck between DiMasi and … [Read more...]