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As jobs disappear and economic anxiety spreads, the incoming Congress is showing signs of getting serious about health care reform, and the entrenched health insurers are signaling their willingness to negotiate.Two trade groups, America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Community Health Centers Struggle to Stay Afloat: The recession is hitting community health centers hard, as more uninsured flood into these clinics.

We try not to make financial decisions in a vacuum. We strive to factor in all the relevant pieces before making a major purchase. But there are some costs that we often fail to factor in that can make a significant difference. We often fail to factor in future flows of money.

We NEED to repair the tattered safety net which the far right, Friedmanite Republicans and too many neoliberal Democrats despise. This whole thing just scares me to death, and I am worried beyond words whether Obama has the acumen, let alone the desire, to reverse this disastrous course.

CDCs looking into strengthening social safety net By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 November 2008 SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Community Development Councils (CDCs) are looking into ways to strengthen the country’s social safety net, with measures to help residents cope in the event of a prolonged recession.

The California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference was so packed with great panels that I needed help choosing my targets. Here is the first in a series of posts about this event. Spreading Improvement: After the Innovators/Early Adopters Hunter Gatewood of the Safety Net

Peter wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the following question. If you have a credit or debt question you’d like to ask just use the online form. I’m happy to help you totally for free. Income from the GetOutOfDebt.org site advertising is used to help alleviate poverty.

The following is from Gail Shepherd, NT’s food writer, on the passage of Amendment 2, which she calls mean-spirited and wicked. I’ll add strategic. As West Palm Beach activist-attorney Rand Hoch told me this morning, the anti-gay amendment was added in part to bring conservatives out to the polls (it worked in 2004) to win the presidency.

There are critical meetings underway this week at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) as the two hospital networks look for ways to make deep cuts. Roughly 16% of the state budget reductions Governor Patrick announced last month apply to these institutions.

Happy All Saints Day, one day late, from Buildify. We hope your weekend has been productive and if it hasn’t been yet, well we have another list of links for you to read through for some blogging ideas to help you get started. Corporate Blog Medium Shifting in Large Way writes Miller-McCune.