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Monthly Archives: June 2011
HCFA Takes Salem Hearing by Storm
Out of about 60 people who showed up to the public hearing, 14 folks from Lynn, Wakefield, and Reading suited up in Health Care For All t-shirts to tell the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing that the North Shore … Continue reading
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Put Patients First – Protect the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Gift Ban. Check out www.hcfama.org/giftban
Three years ago, the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Gift Ban was enacted to protect consumers and reduce health care costs by limiting the marketing practices of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Each year, approximately $30 billion dollars on these marketing … Continue reading
Posted in Prescription Drug Reform
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Like Fine Wine, Massachusetts Health Reform Law Gets Better with Age
Support for the Massachusetts universal health reform law is increasing in the Commonwealth, according to a poll conducted by Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe featured in yesterday’s Globe. The poll results showed a 10% increase in … Continue reading
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We’re Live-Tweeting the Salem Payment Reform Hearing
Sorry for the poor quality in the camera-phone picture. Today the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing is holding their third hearing on the Governor’s payment reform bill. A strong group of North Shore activists, recruited by HCFA and the … Continue reading
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OMG! ACO RFI (PS: BFD)
Last Friday the Patrick administration released their “Request For Information for Accountable Care Organizations,” or the ACO RFI in agency-speak. The subtitle explains the purpose, “Improving Health Care Quality, Delivery of Integrated Services, and Containing Costs through Accountable Care Organizations.” … Continue reading
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FY 2012 Budget Process Enters Final Stages – HCFA Weighs In
With the Senate passing its version of the FY 2012 State Budget last week, we are getting close to the end of a this year’s long journey. Both the House and Senate have named conferees (Senators Brewer, Baddour, and Knapik; … Continue reading
Looking Back and Looking Forward
The political world is obsessed with Mitt Romney’s role in the origins of Massachusetts health reform, and the individual mandate. A Google blog search of “Romney health care Massachusetts” brings up 921,000 results. On Sunday, coincidentally (apparently), both the Boston … Continue reading
