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May 14, 2012 •
Cost Control is on the Senate Agenda tomorrow and Thursday. The place will be crawling with “Special Interest Groups” like ours — meaning Health Care for All. They have done the research, they have found amendment sponsors, now they are asking us all to get to work and call our own Senators. So do...
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May 10, 2012 •
Plain talk is what we civilians need here, and WBUR’s CommonHealth’s blog called Reform and Reality gets off to an excellent start with this entry. The Massachusetts House released its plan for cutting health costs on Friday. The Senate isreleasing its own plan today. And now begins the public “compare and contrast” period, the ingathering of input...
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Apr 27, 2012 •
Best Chant to be seen in a video embedded in this article by State House News Service was “Today we March Tomorrow We Vote!” While most of the media led their stories with the protest around rising fares and reduced services at the MBTA, the State House News gave a few more details including the...
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Apr 27, 2012 •
And they did!! Well, Erik Ariel Torres, from ABCD University High School said there were at least 60 of them. “There’s a real crisis with the levels of funding,” said Lew Finfer, an organizer for the Youth Jobs Coalition. “About 1,200 jobs are at stake.” in the Boston Herald on Wednsday the 25. “ Boston’s Thomas M. Menino and 20...
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Apr 27, 2012 •
This 35 minute debate was preceded by hours and hours of negotiations between Legislators who filed amendments to severely restrict the use of EBT Cards by welfare recipients to prevent fraud and Legislators who were concerned that the proposed solutions were unenforceable and threatened small businesses and certain professional services — carefully itemized on a 16...
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Apr 27, 2012 •
And here is Claradine Cowell, a Leader in the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Movement telling her story. She is introduced by Lee Staples, a former organizer for Mass Welfare rights.
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Apr 26, 2012 •
It was a lousy process for fans of transparency who long for the time we had 10 full days (and nights) of televised debate one line item at a time. Never mind there were huddles of legislators in the corners of the Chamber or (gasp) behind closed doors developing arguments and and counting votes in relative...
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Apr 21, 2012 •
Health reform advocates have a really hard time talking plain English. So, from HCFA’s resident wiseguy, I mean really smart guy, Ari Fertig…