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After a busy week aggravated by a quick transcon trip, I have a full reading pile I need to clear out. At KevinMD, the question is asked, “Why are so many patients referred to specialists”? The thesis: The fee-for-service payment system has something to do with the behavior, compounded with the tendency to practice defensive medicine. As [...]
If you lack an effective party structure within the state, outsource. As I head to bed, it looks like the Massachusetts special election is being called. With 93% of the vote in, it’s Brown (R) 52%, Coakley (D) 47%, and Kennedy (L) 1%. And the health care reform effort in Congress just became a bit more interesting 
Seen on a mailing list I follow: I think Coakley is more like Joe Lieberman than any other Democrat, and that Scott Brown is a cookie-cutter neo-con who talks fiscal responsibility but taxes and spends like a porkmeister. Coakley would be getting a Senate seat and doing damage pretty much until she decides to retire, while Brown [...]
Seen at fivethirtyeight.com: The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecasting Model, which correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, now regards Republican Scott Brown as a 74 percent favorite to win the Senate seat in Massachusetts on the basis of new polling from ARG, Research 2000 and InsiderAdvantage which show worsening numbers for Brown’s opponent, [...]
I’m briefly resurfacing again to note that while I’ve been occupied with work and getting frisked by TSA employees, the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat is upon us…and it looks to be a close one. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com has, of course, dusted off his models and rated the race a toss-up. The [...] 
Two articles from different sources, reporting on different parts of the country Seen in the Boston Herald: Pike officials, under fire for approving a hefty toll hike scheduled to take effect July 1, faced more heat yesterday after the Herald reported that there was a 23 percent increase in speeding tickets on the Pike during the first [...] 
Via the New York Times: The legal advocacy group that successfully argued for sex-same marriage in Massachusetts intends to file suit here on Tuesday seeking some federal benefits for spouses in such marriages.[…] The plaintiffs in the suit include eight couples and three widowers, all of whom were married in Massachusetts after the state began allowing same-sex [...] 
First, Georgia sought to annex part of Tennessee to gain access to a lake. Now, a Massachusetts lake may have gained access to Connecticut, triggering a border squabble. Seen at WTIC: About 170 Suffield homeowners face bills from Southwick, Mass., for new dock and boat permits. The money will pay for police patrols on the lake. But Suffield [...] 
About $6 billion, apparently. From the Boston Globe: Massachusetts lawmakers are proposing bigger pensions for state and municipal employees that could cost $6 billion or more, according to some estimates, triggering a chorus of complaints from fiscal watchdogs and local leaders who say the money is not there to pay for it. The union-friendly, election-year maneuvers by [...] 
Seen in a Boston Globe blog: The state’s new subsidized health insurance program will cost “significantly” more than the $869 million proposed in the governor’s FY2009 budget just two months ago, the state’s top financial official said today. The budget gap looms despite steps taken today to hold down state costs—approval of a tough contract with insurers, [...] |
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