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...compare the two healthcare systems without isolating one specific cause for the differences. Himmelstein, however, said the results indicated that universal insurance was preferable, although he remains skeptical about Massachusetts’ universal coverage scheme. “It’s a disastrous plan that I guess Romney thinks he can run for President on,” he said, adding that he thinks the system of compulsory insurance will be expensive for those who will have to pay, and inadequate for those whose insurance will be subsidized. Lasser, Himmelstein, and Woolhandler all work at the Cambridge Health Alliance...
Patrick also said that Massachusetts was losing ground to North Carolina and California in biotechnology research. He drew strong applause when he took a shot at Gov. W. Mitt Romney, saying that the governor had refused to fund stem cell research with state money and because he was too concerned with “playing politics...
...bill that would force the Harvard University Police Department to make public its detailed incident reports, setting the stage for a fight in the House of Representatives between police watchdog groups and private colleges. If the legislation passes the House and is signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney, HUPD and other private university police forces would join state and local police in releasing their reports publicly. The bill’s success would also render moot a decision handed down by Massachusetts’ highest court in January, when the Supreme Judicial Court struck down a suit brought...
...priorities are only too clear. As part of the 1990 legal agreement to begin the Big Dig highway project, Massachusetts promised to fund a number of desperately needed public transportation projects in order to ameliorate the increased pollution and traffic that the new highway would generate. But the Romney administration has consistently downsized, delayed, or outright terminated most of the projects that were included in the 1990 agreement, choosing instead to divert transportation funds to other expensive highway projects and mass transit extensions that would primarily benefit the Commonwealth’s more affluent residents. Among the most needed...
...demagoguery whenever plausible. Sorry, guys, you lost me there. George W. Bush has proven that governing from the right can't work; but governing from the left won't work either. The only way that real change - a universal health-care system (along the lines enacted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts), a real alternative energy plan, progressivity in taxation and entitlement reform, a cooperative non-toxic foreign policy-will come is through coalitions built from the center out. And those coalitions will only flourish in a public atmosphere of civility, humanity and compromise...