Comments on: “The Pace Is About to Accelerate:” Notes from the Connector Board’s 1st Annual Meeting http://blog.hcfama.org/2006/10/28/%e2%80%9cthe-pace-is-about-to-accelerate%e2%80%9d-notes-from-the-connector-board%e2%80%99s-1st-annual-meeting/ The Ultimate Massachusetts Health Care Insider Information Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rocco J. Frank Jr. http://blog.hcfama.org/2006/10/28/%e2%80%9cthe-pace-is-about-to-accelerate%e2%80%9d-notes-from-the-connector-board%e2%80%99s-1st-annual-meeting/#comment-229 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:42:52 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=621#comment-229 This excerpt from the “Awful Truth” is a very sad reality about rampant greed and the healthcare system. Moore proved that profit and denial of claims are in the best interest of Wall Street investors of which big pharma and insurance companies have a fiduciary responsibility to. Americas sweeping loss of quality jobs and opportunity combined with the dollar decline has actually made Socialist nations like France, Canada and England look more appealing due to their free health care, and educational opportunities. America many years ago provided affordable healthcare for all free of corporate intervention. Today those squandered opportunities left us all uninsured, underinsured and afraid to get sick. Ralph Nader a consumer advocate stated “American doctors kill 57,000 people each year” due to malpractice and or accidents. To put this into perspective that is the total death toll of the Vietnam war each year. As an added note I do not agree with all of Moore’s suggestions but I do think he raises awareness in a satirical and dramatic way that leads us to debate important healthcare issues

]]> By: A Healthy Blog » Connector Board Report: Credible or Creditable Coverage? http://blog.hcfama.org/2006/10/28/%e2%80%9cthe-pace-is-about-to-accelerate%e2%80%9d-notes-from-the-connector-board%e2%80%99s-1st-annual-meeting/#comment-228 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:01:30 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=621#comment-228 [...] Calendar Jon K went over the timelines for the first six items on his list of thirteen decisions and initiatives (see the list from this blog entry). Some highlights of the discussion: [...]

]]> By: Gerald Belastock http://blog.hcfama.org/2006/10/28/%e2%80%9cthe-pace-is-about-to-accelerate%e2%80%9d-notes-from-the-connector-board%e2%80%99s-1st-annual-meeting/#comment-227 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:04:31 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=621#comment-227 On Saturday I learned the following about the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA):

· It’s been in place for 13 years performing many of the same functions as the Connector.
· Connecticut’s population is two-thirds that of Massachusetts.
· The 88,000 lives under CBIA’s plans compares favorably with the 450,000 now uninsured in our state.
· There are many dissimilarities between CBIA and the Connector’s jobs and between the insurance businesses and the employer/employee universes in Connecticut and Massachusetts

The Connector’s jobs are gargantuan and their time short. It seems to me that a literal, explicit and complete duplication of CBIA’s systems would be the best place for the Connector to start. It is absolute certainty that the Connector will make mistakes, but if replicating CBIA here is a mistake it is a small mistake and one that can be fixed much more easily than reinventing all the apparatus that evolution has furnished those folks to our south.

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