Yo Jack,

Great to see you at the family dinner last week. I loved hearing your band’s new song, Naked on the Inside, particularly now that I understand that it’s not a tale of adolescent angst and the search for connection, but just about sex.

So, you had a lot of good questions about the state’s new health insurance law.

I agree, it’s weird that the state called its new health plans “Commonwealth Choice” when lots of people won’t have a choice about whether or not to buy them. I’ll pass that comment along to the people who make up the names. I can also understand why you think it’s age discrimination that the plans don’t cover the costs of tattoos, piercings, and herbal medicine. Read more…

(in Haiku format)

Health reform is hard.
Such a broken system.
We can’t fix it all.

Progress. Much to do.
Will we keep together
Or bring out old scripts?

Large deductibles.
A curb on demand. Or just
more debt to pay off.

Health plans with no drugs,
Wisely judged to be
Not creditable. Read more…

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…