Monthly Archives: December 2005

Early this week, Health Law Advocates (HCFA’s law firm) and Mass. Law Reform Institute filed suit against the Romney Administration for failing to restore dental coverage for pregnant women and moms with kids up to age 3 who are on … Continue reading →

Nada. Zippo. Zero. Why? Two reasons. One: Romney’s choice not to seek re-election was one of the worst kept secrets in modern state political history. Every one on Beacon Hill with any political sense (and there are a lot of … Continue reading →

Today, on behalf of about 45,000 poor pregnant women and poor mothers with children under age 3, we filed a class action lawsuit to compel the Romney Administration to restore dental benefits to these women. Last July, the Legislature included … Continue reading →

About 20 people crowded into the office of Health Care Financing Committee chair Patricia Walrath Monday afternoon. The conference committee to resolve the differences between the House and Senate health care reform bills was meeting for the first time. No … Continue reading →

It’s a rarity — an open meeting for a legislative conference committee. It seems the health reform conference committee will hold an open meeting on Monday at 1pm in State House room 236. They could immediately vote to go into … Continue reading →

Last fall, Boston-based Local 2020 of the Service Employees International Union merged with the New York giant, Local 1199, to form a major new labor organizing force in Massachusetts, and in the MA health sector generally. Their influence will in … Continue reading →

Lots of folks around the nation — and in MA — swallow the line that “consumer driven health care” is the fair and right answer to our health system problems. Gov. Romney, our health plans, and business leaders see these … Continue reading →

From State House News Service: TRAVAGLINI: NO PREDICTIONS ON HEALTH CARE, GOING “DAY BY DAY” With the conference committee working out health care reform details set to hold its first meeting next Monday, Senate President Robert Travaglini today declined to … Continue reading →

You’ve never heard of Glenn Kingsbury. He runs a business association — the electrical contractors association of Great Boston. He’s no radical or leftie, he’s just fed up representing employers who provide decent health care to their workers and then … Continue reading →

Geesh, Joe Klein yesterday, Scot Lehigh in the Globe today. The argument, business doesn’t like the House-approved payroll assessment on employers who don’t insure their workers, ergo it must be baaad! Whatever happened to columnists engaging in at least a … Continue reading →