The act of terrorism in Boston is still fresh in Americans’ minds. The finest law enforcement personnel in the world are working night and day to determine who did this cowardly act and perhaps why. There is no good reason for such barbarism; no one’s faith or political ideology can adequately justify it, no matter how twisted the reasoning. As the nation waits for the…
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 under the implementation deadlines of President Barack Obama’s health care…
(Article originally written for the New England Journal of Medicine ) As the prospects for health care reform ebb and flow by the day, one school of thought holds that making modest adjustments rather than enacting large-scale reform could help to avert controversy and command more broad support. Perhaps --but…
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 while operating in an environment of complex and confusing overregulation, increased litigation, and…
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 sacred icon of a strict separationist dogma that…
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 perfected. One thinks of 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…
PriceWaterhouseCoopers recently released a study of Massachusetts’s experience with health care reform, claiming that...…
According to the Boston Herald and other news sources, the family of the Boston Marathon bombers received large...…
Opponents have called it “another Solyndra waiting to happen.” An estimated $2.6 billion offshore wind project near...…
If confirmed as the next Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Dr. Ernest Moniz will take over an agency that has...…
The Medicaid expansion is touted by proponents of Obamacare as a "no-brainer." While it is true that some states may see...…
“We love it [in the United States],” Anurag Bajpayee told The Washington Post. He’s a 27-year-old from India who’s doing...…
Whatever the outcome of today’s elections, Americans can be sure of nonstop electoral analysis and number crunching from...…
Recent negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have sent representatives of government supported industries, like...…
Announcements today and last week from the First and Ninth Circuit Courts have set the stage for the Supreme Court to...…
As state budget reforms work their way through legislatures and courts around the country, a new front in the fight...…