The Right Kind of Political Rhetoric in Massachusetts

Against the background of overheated, duplicitous rhetoric from the Republican right/Tea Party set, a recent op-ed by Massachusetts State S...

Ethics, Politics, and Health Care Reform (2)

So how can we understand the virulent backlash against the health reform legislation? I see two distinctive but inseparable sources for the ...

Insurance Changes from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

How Insurance Companies, Employers, and Insureds will fare under the PPAC Act Some of the legislators think the healthcare reform bill, sign...

How Hospitals will fare under the 2010 Public Health Service Act

Listening to some of the law makers you would think the healthcare reform bill, signed by President Obama was an apocalypse now, rather than...

The Big Day

With today's signing of the main health care reform bill by President Obama (photo above from WhiteHouse.gov ), I now officially put thi...

New Resources To Check Out!

Hi, While you seniors are intersessioning, you might want to check out the three new lectures that WHEP has created this year - Gender Diffe...

Obama Signed the most significant Healthcare Reform Bill since the Creation of Medicare

Whew! I must say I am surprised that any agreement was reached on a healthcare bill, but President Obama was presented with a bill and he si...

Ethics, Politics and Health Care Reform

Now that the House of Representatives has passed the health reform bill, it's a good moment to consider the relationship between ethics ...

Happy MATCH!!!

Congratulation WH Pathwayers (Maire, Edwina, Tikki, Orion, Caroline, Kristin, Neha, Nancy, Erin, Kelly and Jennifer) and Honorary Pathwayers...

Idaho Throws Down the Gauntlet on the Insurance Mandate

Yesterday Republican Governor Otter signed the " Idaho Health Freedom Act " - a bill whose purpose is: "[to codify] as state ...

Comparing the IWF/Polling Company and Anzalone-Liszt Polls of Swing Districts

Just a day after the release of the Independent Women's Forum/Polling Company survey of swing congressional districts (see Monday's ...

Conservatives Unwittingly Promote a Single Payer System

After reading the final sentence of my most recent post on health reform, friends asked me what I'd been smoking: "Therefore, sinc...

March 2010 Independent Women's Forum Poll

A new poll was released today, purporting to show that voters in swing congressional districts are heavily opposed to the health care reform...

HC Reform Polling a Bit Better in Early March

As health care reform approaches crunch time in the U.S. House, recent national polling seems to suggest more favorable public attitudes to...

Disney versus Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood

I'm ashamed to say that I'd never heard of the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) or its suit against Baby Einstein , ...

The Wild Rumpus Over the Individual Mandate is About to Start

The Virginia legislature is about to pass a bill that would prohibit mandating citizens to have medical insurance or pay what they call a ...

Health Care Trade Offs in Massachusetts

Like municipalities all over the country, Massachusetts cities and towns are going down the financial tubes. Health care costs for municipal...

This item is not so much about actual polls, but rather about an event that may have helped shape health care-related public opinion to some...

The latest installment of Pollster.com's "Outliers" includes not one, not two, not three, but four items on health care polli...