Year: 2009

NOW THAT federal policymakers have been charged with designing the new comparative effectiveness research program to compare healthcare interventions and determine what works best, they must do so while recognizing… Read more »

The House Ways & Means budget, released on April 15th, would increase the percentage all state employees pay for their health insurance premiums to 70%. This would represent a 100%… Read more »

HEALTH INSURANCE executive James Roosevelt Jr. implores policy makers to build on employer-based, private health insurance when considering national healthcare reform ("

IT IS good to see that, in his April 9 op-ed "

FINANCIAL links between the drug industry and the medical profession threaten to undercut patients’ faith in their care every time their doctors reach for their prescription pads. An antidote to… Read more »

Massachusetts General Hospital has suspended its pediatric cardiac surgery program after two babies recently suffered serious complications following errors made during open-heart surgery. The Harvard teaching hospital had expanded the… Read more »

By Ed ForryCreated 04/16/2009 – 10:14am Copeland Surgical Center launch: Dr. Martin Williams, Carney Hospital’s chief of surgery, speaks at the official launch.Officials and staff of Dorchester’s Carney Hospital gathered… Read more »

Leapfrog Group Hospital Survey Finds Majority of Hospitals Fail to Meet Important Quality Standards

By Matt Viser, Globe Staff Cities and towns would have less money to fight crime and plow streets. The working poor would lose assistance needed to stay in their homes…. Read more »

Note from David: