Massachusetts and Health Care Reform (and don't forget Vermont)

In a development that ought to make conservatives everywhere tingle with thrill, states like Massachusetts and Vermont are innovating health care solutions. (MA's individual insurance mandate, signed by Republican Gov Romney and based on conservative Heritage foundation's ideas,  is of course the precursor to the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate).

This blog entry is to track coverage and information about Mass health care reforms.  Ongoing.

"Obamacare" and the Republican House: Re-Arguing Health Care Reform

Republicans, teapartiers, libertarians 

have all made a cottage industry out of 

hating "Obamacare". Know the facts.

The Constitution

The State of Things

GOP will bedevil the details of healthcare reform

Individual Mandate was a GOP idea

"Job-killing," "Hurts small business"

Waivers: "If it's so great, why are Unions seeking waivers?"

The Deficit and "Obamacare"

States' Rights and "Obamacare"

Democrats and Messaging on Healthcare

Rep. Stephen Lynch and his anti-healthcare reform 

   

GOP alternative plans to Obamacare

GOP arguments

Public attitudes toward healthcare reform (polls, damn polls)

"If obamacare is so great, why doesn't Congress use it?"

Payment Reforms

Massachusetts updates

Single payer

Crazy RW blather on healthcare

Abortion and "obamacare"

Links I pulled together in 2010