Year: 2009

Please post: For those who are optimistic that the public sector can  "keep the insurers honest", or that we have the political will and the dedicated financial and human resources… Read more »

Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the U.S., on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to require all large businesses to provide health benefits to their workers, the

WASHINGTON – The face of the insurance industry in Washington is a slight, soft-spoken former AFL-CIO employee benefits director with a penchant for data-driven logic. She has the confidence and… Read more »

Database Takes Patients for Billions, Study Finds THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 5:13 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 5:13 a.m. WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional… Read more »

By Wendy Parmet  |  June 30, 2009 THE World Health Organization has announced the obvious: The H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak has become a global pandemic. Fortunately, the virus thus far… Read more »

Two new cable television shows have challenged the formula of prime time medical dramas that traditionally focused only on doctors. TNT’s “HawthoRNe,’’ starring Jada Pinkett-Smith as a heroic chief of… Read more »

Sen. Richard Moore reached out to the Mass Nurses Association over the weekend and apologized for the comment he made at last Thursday’s Mass Healthcare Quality and Cost event comparing… Read more »

Massachusetts is recognized as a pioneer in public health. It was here, in 1799 in Boston, that the nation’s first local board of health was created. But now the state’s… Read more »

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To the editor: I am writing in response to the new Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) just opened in Danvers by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the North Shore Medical Center… Read more »