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I went to a GBIO meeting tonight for the first time in a while and I’ll be collecting more signatures Saturday morning.  More signatures need to be collected to keep the ballot initiative running.  The main concern remaining with the health care initiative is the individual mandate and the definition of “affordable” now that every [...]

I haven’t written about this in a while, and hardly at all since the bill was passed.  People in GBIO were pretty happy when the bill was passed, but there were a few concerns expressed.  I’ve come to understand that one of the main tasks of organizing involves making points simple and easy to remember.  [...]

It seemed like whenever I posted that a bill was soon to come, there were delays. And, sure enough, when I don’t post anything, the bill actually comes out. It’s really interesting to see how much goes in to drawing up a bill like this one. The process took forever and was [...]

I got an email from the GBIO main office last week about the final health care legislation set to be released by the health care conference committee tomorrow.  The email also said that a memo from Health Care For All would be posted on the GBIO web site this weekend outlining what is believed to [...]

It seemed like after we had stopped collecting signatures, that the issue of health care just faded away.  We knew that the House had crafted a bill that was similar in many points to the ballot initiative, but that the senate had not been as receptive.  That was months ago.
A couple weeks ago, the talk [...]

Boston.com, after running several articles about health care reform, has finally published one specifically about GBIO and our involvement in the health care debate that’s going on. The article focuses specificly on Rev. Hurmon Hamiltion and Rabbi Jonah Pesner who together wrote an op-ed piece on health care in August. The article looks [...]

GBIO collected 42,000 signatures for the MassACT ballot initiative, surpassing our goal. We still don’t know what the final tally will be including all partner organizations and the signatures still need to be certified by the Secretary of State.
Of course, the greater victory is that a couple thousand people out on the streets collecting [...]

Just before midnight last night, the House passed the health care bill by an overwhelming majority (131-22). Now on the Senate where it’s expected to meet opposition.

Lawmakers in Massachusetts are still trying to craft a health care bill to cover almost all of those who are uninsured and employers are still complaining. The Globe, meanwhile, continues to editorialize in favor of the bill being proposed even as some of the details are being ironed out. I’m expecting to hear [...]

Kudos to the Globe for running an editorial in favor of the new legislation.