Abstract: Implementation of the Massachusetts health care reform has largely failed to address the needs of small businesses and their employees. Given that small businesses generate most new jobs, this breakdown also constitutes poor economic policy. As other states take up health care reform…
(Article originally written for the New England Journal of Medicine …
Brian Darling, Director of Senate Relations discusses Massachusett's special election and how Scott Brown's victory may impact health care reform. …
Gov. Mitt Romney cites Heritagewhich he called a quintessentially conservative groupfor its work to reform health care in Massachusetts on CNN Headline News. …
Ed Haislmaier discusses the Massachusetts health plan on FOXs The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet …
Ed Haislmaier discusses the Massachusetts health care reforms on C-SPANs Washington Journal. (30 minutes long) …
There is a deepening crisis in America's hospital emergency rooms. More and more patients are showing up for care without the ability to pay for it. The burden on taxpayers and private insurance policy holders is increasing, and doctors and nurses are often overworked…
Ed Haislmaier discusses the universal healthcare requirement in Massachusetts on CNBC. …
No metaphor in American letters has had a more profound influence on law and policy than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state." Today, this figure of speech is accepted by many Americans as a pithy description of the constitutionally prescribed church-state arrangement, and it has become the…
Taxpayers funding Washington's $20,000-per-household budget have long known they are not getting their money's worth. Farm subsidies are among the most wasteful uses of taxpayer dollars. The budget-busting $180 billion farm bill enacted before the 2002 elections not only encourages the crop overproduction that depresses crop prices and farm incomes, but also undermines trade and…
The word "justice" is on everyone's lips nowadays, and may signify almost anything. We hear the cry "Peace and Justice!" from folk who would destroy existing societies with fire and sword. Other folk fancy that perfect justice might readily be obtained by certain financial rearrangements -- as if anything in this world ever could be…
As state budget reforms work their way through legislatures and courts around the country, a new front in the fight...…
One by one, all but seven states have succumbed to pressure to adopt national academic standards. But in a recent bid...…
President Barack Obama’s promise that “if you like it you can keep it” may be this generation’s “read my lips—no new...…
State officials around the country are getting a lesson from the California legislature in how not to respond to...…
Two of the most prominent "safety net" hospitals in Massachusetts are facing sizable budget gaps again this year, and...…
Marriage is under intensified assault in two federal courtrooms. Last week a federal district judge in Massachusetts...…
Major Stephen L. Godin thought he had retired from battle after logging over 2,000 hours during five overseas...…
Patience will be more than a virtue, under Obamacare. It’ll be a necessity. A recent article from ABC News outlines...…
Suddenly, bipartisanship is all the rage at the Obama White House. The president has announced that he will hold a...…
In the wake of the historic election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, observers have expressed interest in the...…