Ensuring the success of the state’s health reform law is serious business: being without health insurance is unhealthy: for individuals, families, communities, and our state. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try to have some laughs along the way. Read more…

“CommonHealth” is a community blog at WBUR that tracks Massachusetts’ attempt to cover the uninsured and control health care spending. The goals are to create a broad conversation and to cover more issues and updates than we can within the daily news cycle. The blog includes daily posts from a group of contributors listed below, guest contributors, stories produced by WBUR and links to other analysis and resources. Read more…

Two and a half years ago, the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) began to discern whether we should engage in a campaign to expand access to quality, affordable health care to the more than half a million residents of Massachusetts who were, at that time, uninsured. This discernment led us to affirm that everyone is precious and deserving of healing (Genesis 1:27). We recognized that our calling is not only to preach but to act for the health and wholeness of our community (Matthew 9:25). And we affirmed what the 12th century physician, philosopher, and theologian Moses Maimonides taught — that a public system of health care is the moral obligation of any just community. Read more…

How is health care reform going in Massachusetts? Very well so far – although that is not necessarily the impression conveyed by media reports. Read more…