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 Friday, 13 June 2008
Q&A: MA State Senator Richard Moore, Senate Chair of the Legislature's Joint Committee on Health Care Financing:
In 2006, Massachusetts passed the Health Care Reform Act, the first comprehensive health insurance plan in the United States. The plan requires all individuals to have healthcare, with the State stepping up for those unable to afford it. It creates a “Connector,” an agency that helps individuals to find an affordable plan, and allows individuals to opt out—for a while—with a set of defined reasons and a penalty clause.
Two years later, it's working. Yes, “working.” PT spoke with MA State Senator Richard Moore, one of the program's architects, to find out why.
PT: What is the basic theory underlying the Act?
Senator Moore: The theo... |
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 Monday, 17 March 2008
EDUCATION
POLICY: Equality,
Knowledge, and
Federalism
“Education
is the future,” says
CA State Senator
Jack Scott,
who chairs the
State's
Senate Committee
on Education.
Everyone agrees “that
all Americans
deserve a quality
education,” but
most political
leaders launch
into the ‘how?' before
answering the ‘what?' in
defining education
policy. The
2008 Presidential
candidates' position
statements,
for example,
have focused
on who sets
educational
goals and standards:
parents or government?
(Teachers, students
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 Policy Today talks with Kansas State Senator John Vratil about the future of education in Kansas and the problem of educational inequality in America. |
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 How can state and federal educational mandates damage the system they're trying to help? By ignoring deep social divisions in the system, constraining good teachers and adopting a "one-size-fits-average" premise... |
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Education policy has long been the province of the states in our federal system. But with No Child Left Behind up for reauthorization and a bevy of national concerns on the agenda, the focus has shifted toward ho... |
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The roots of school underachievement are a complicated network of poverty, language barriers, unstable student homes and imbalanced public policies. |
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