Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Coverage & Access|Health Reform Dialogue Coalition Releases Recommendations for U.S. Health Care System Overhaul [Mar 30, 2009] A coalition representing health care firms, patients and… Read more »
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Recommendations for U.S. Health Care System Overhaul (MC)
Times Examines Massachusetts Health Insurance Law as Model for U.S. Health Reform (MC)
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Coverage & Access|New York Times Examines Massachusetts Health Insurance Law as Model for U.S. Health Reform[Mar 30, 2009] "By tackling cost at the same time… Read more »
Labor effort aimed at Hub health workers
By Joseph Williams, Globe Staff | March 30, 2009 WASHINGTON – Union canvassers in Boston are pursuing two urgent missions – organizing the city’s big teaching hospitals and trying to… Read more »
A Lesson on Health Care From Massachusetts (MC)
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Costs, concerns rise on home healthcare (DS)
Abuse, fraud stir call for oversight By David Abel, Globe Staff | March 28, 2009 One personal care attendant was arrested last year in Boston, accused of leaving a quadriplegic… Read more »
Quick Reference Guide to Viewing Your Bargaining Unit on the New MNA Website
Health insurance woes hit workers (MS)
WASHINGTON – American workers – whose taxes pay for massive government health programs – are getting squeezed like no other group by private health insurance premiums that are rising much… Read more »
Kennedy returns to Hill as work on health plan is gearing up (MS)
Only 1.5% of hospitals have electronic records (MC)
No big surprise that in an unregulated world – where hospitals are not mandated to install electronic health records -you get a 1.5% compliance rate! This is a documented patient… Read more »
Study Shows More People Go Without Health Coverage as Insurance Costs Outpace Income Eightfold (MC)
With Congress and the Obama administration discussing how to reform the nation’s health care system, a new report looks at what has happened since the last significant reform effort ended… Read more »