The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing held a hearing Wednesday afternoon on several bills including one on health care affordability.
Health Care for All reports on the hearings on their blog.
“Dorcas Grigg-Saito, the CEO of the Lowell Community Health Center, shared the struggles many of her clients have with the costs of health care. Grigg-Saito informed the Committee that the Lowell Community Health Center serves one-third of the population of Lowell and 93% of the patients are below 200% fpl.”
(Click here for my story on how the Lowell health center works with the Khmer community’s preference for traditional medicine.)
Boston Health News 
[…] the possibility of a global payment system is on the table here in Mass and some advocates are lining up behind it. (Under the system, doctors and hospitals would be paid per episode – like a heart attack – or […]