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...with state-run health care," Perry wrote last year in his book "Fed Up."' "If federalism is respected, the people of Massachusetts are free to try it while the rest of the nation sits back and watches to see if they have any success, and whether any success...
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News-Medical.net
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110826/Perry-takes-on-Romneys-Massachusetts-health-reforms.aspx
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...and oranges, so let’s try our best to make some meaningful comparison between the two sets of eligibility rules. Focus on Massachusetts first. How much are individual premiums in the state? From a recent Kaiser study on state variation in health insurance...
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The Incidental Economist
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/workers-exchange-eligibility-massachusetts-vs-the-aca/
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... The foundation, a children's advocacy group that ranks each state based on 10 social and economic factors, found that Massachusetts children living below the federal poverty line increased by 16,153 between 2008 and 2009, suggesting to advocates that the...
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GazetteNet | Northampton, MA
http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/08/17/report-ranks-massachusetts-3rd-in-child-well-being
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...suspect doesn’t itself cast any doubt on the Massachusetts figures. Here’s the point I keep making about the steady/increasing Massachusetts offer rate: though there is good reason to think individuals in different states may have different attitudes about...
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The Incidental Economist
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/employer-offers-in-massachusetts-are-up/
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...agenda to boost Bay State jobs. His targeted approach focused on bills that would specifically help key industries here in Massachusetts, such as medical device companies, the fishing industry and our world-class hospitals and medical centers. Last week, Sen....
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Cape Cod Online
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110811/OPINION/108110338/-1/rss50
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...providers and citizens across Massachusetts.” Sara Hartman, vice president, Association of Behavioral Healthcare said the new Massachusetts Medicaid claims system is a valuable resource for Medicaid providers such as her organization. “It brings the claim...
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Healthcare IT News
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/cms-certifies-massachusetts-medicaid-system
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...releases highlighting the economic relationship between Massachusetts and Israel. Among the facts and figures cited was that Massachusetts companies shipped $180 million in goods to Israel in 2009 and that the United States accounts for 12.3 percent of Israel’s...
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Worcester Business Journal Online
http://www.wbjournal.com/news48706.html
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...spring cleaning on hold and get out the coats and boots again because the snow has already started in parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts. While this spring snow storm is not like some of the major storms we saw this winter, it is still expected to drop...
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Huliq.com
http://www.huliq.com/12079/spring-snow-storm-takes-aim-connecticut-and-massachusetts
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...seven states with higher rates, but it is clear that Massachusetts is becoming more competitive with nearby states. However, Massachusetts businesses face other burdens as well. "Front and center on the burdens list is our health insurance mandate," said state...
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SouthCoastToday.com
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110322/OPINION/103220336/-1/rss06
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...course, was the seat that once belonged to Ted Kennedy. The question that remains is whether Brown will be but a footnote in Massachusetts political history or become the face of politics in the Bay State for years to come. Well, at the moment, the winds appearing...
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American Spectator
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/16/has-massachusetts-become-a-bro
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...only 80 percent of the next $15,000 in costs for covered services." The study's lead author, Dr. David Himmelstein, said, "Massachusetts' health reform, like the national law modeled after it, takes many of the uninsured and makes them underinsured, typically...
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YubaNet
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Yubanet/~3/syj_Wg_Z184/Massachusetts-reform-hasn-t-stopped-medical-bankruptcies-Harvard-study.php
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...The median salary is $38,200, or $18.37 per hour, throughout the nation. A mental health and substance abuse social worker in Massachusetts earns an average annual salary of $43,700. Social workers employed in other fields (such as those working in research,...
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Figure/Speed Skating
http://www.suite101.com/content/massachusetts-social-worker-salary-a355650
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...of Massachusetts; a powerful advocate for HIV prevention, treatment, and care.Representative Byron Rushing – a member of Massachusetts House of Representatives; a longtime champion of human and civil rights, and the creation of economic housing and health...
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/simmons-college-commencement-celebrates-boston--massachusetts-117341528.html
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...all-time series. Last Meeting: Boston College 4, Massachusetts 3 (Feb 25., 2011) Last Meeting at Conte Forum: Boston College 5, Massachusetts 0 (Feb. 4, 2011) W - Boston College 4, at Massachusetts 3 (February 25, 2011) W - at Boston College 5, Massachusetts...
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BC Interruption
http://www.bcinterruption.com/2011/2/26/2009934/boston-college-hockey-umass-hockey-hockey-east
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...the last few days, thousands of words have been written and many charts posted on Pollster and elsewhere, all ... The race in Massachusetts... powerlineblog.com 2 days ago — is nominally between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown, but over...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/massachusetts-senate-race-thinking-the-unthinkable/
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...item in national politics. Some polls show Republican candidate Scott Brown and Democratic ... MA-Sen: The President Heads To Massachusetts dailykos.com 2 days ago — With only days to go before the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's senate seat, President...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/trendspotting-in-massachusetts/
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BOSTON When Massachusetts started offering virtually free treatments to help poor residents of the state stop smoking in 2006, proponents hoped the new Medicaid program would someday reap benefits.
But state officials never expected it would happen so s
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17smoke.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Cancer survivors face numerous medical and psychosocial challenges, which the medical and public health systems are
ill-equipped to deal with. In May 2008, the Massachusetts Comprehensive
Cancer Control Coalition conducted a Survivorship Summit to
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US Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2010/Jan/09_0060.htm?s_cid=pcd71a22_x
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Twenty-three states have sent at least one woman to the United States Senate, and in three states - California, Maine, and Washington - female senators hold both seats.
But Massachusetts, a bastion of liberal politics and a pioneer in civil rights, is j
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Boston Globe
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=980ab5f34902f2142b9079b068c64ec3
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How do you follow a legend?
Four Democratic hopefuls are vying to fill the shoes of the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, such beloved shoes that many voters can't imagine anyone filling them.
"All the candidates are trying to latch ont
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The Post Chronicle
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212271467.shtml?rssfeed
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Rep. Michael E. Capuano ’s bid for Massachusetts’ open Senate seat has been gaining momentum, and he has succeeded in narrowing the Democratic primary contest to a two-person race between himself and front-runner Martha Coakley, a number of party strate
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CQ Politics
http://www.cqpolitics.com/news-000003257437
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Scott Brown harbors no illusions about the difficulty of being the GOP standard-bearer in the special Senate election to replace liberal icon Sen. Edward M. Kennedy .
“I’m a Republican in Massachusetts, trying to take a seat held by Ted Kennedy,” said t
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CQ Politics
http://www.cqpolitics.com/news-000003257439
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So how did Massachusetts do it?
We'll include a brief refresher at the bottom of this post on components of the Massachusetts system. But we want to look first at how, according to the RWJF study, Massachusetts enrolled so many eligible, low-income resi
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New America Blogs
http://health.newamerica.net/blogposts/2009/health_reform_massachusetts_making_headlines-16950
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The Democratic primary race in Massachusetts to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is intense enough — and if the fundraising is any indication, it’s a safe bet the contest is bound to get downright fervid.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coa
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CQ Politics
http://www.cqpolitics.com/news-000003252075
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(Remarks released by the White House)
Thank you very much. Please, have a seat. Thank you. Thank you, MIT. (Applause.) I am -- I am hugely honored to be here. It's always been a dream of mine to visit the most prestigious school in Cambridge, Massachuse
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Boston Globe
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=1a8afc056ddf2280363fb68cdf3d4d1d
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Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder:
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Hot Air
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/12/massachusetts-goes-for-rationing/
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High in the seats at last year’s Democratic National Convention, Attorney General Martha Coakley rose to register her vote for Hillary Clinton. The vote carried no mathematical weight - Barack Obama had already secured the nomination - but was a symboli
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Boston Globe
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=998db10d3b4b3ac080eb33220a4107be
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Former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. speaks as Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., listens during a news conference at the Statehouse in Boston Thursday, Sept.24, 2009 where it was announced that Kirk will temporarily fill the late Sen. Edward
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1251120.html
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given initial approval to a bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the Senate seat left vacant when Edward Kennedy died last month.
The House voted 97-58 in favor of the bill
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Miami Herald
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HEALTH-US:
BOSTON, Sep 18 (IPS) - As all factions of the U.S. Congress continue a bruising debate about how to change the U.S. health system, one state, Massachusetts, seems to point the way clear, but activists say the Massachusetts plan
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Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48494
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Three years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as a model for other states and the federal government. That law has become the blueprint for health system change on a
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Columbia Journalism Review
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/health_reform_lessons_from_mas_5.php
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Let me begin by making one thing clear: An open Senate seat should be filled on a term to term basis by the people of Massachusetts. A vacancy in an existing term should be filled until the completion of that term by an election. The Legislature was
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Political Intelligence
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/09/kerry_wants_ken.html
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NORTON, Mass. - Steve Stricker laughed off the suggestion that he is golf's Mr. September - the player who's flourished the most in the PGA Tour playoffs.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
http://www.ajc.com/sports/playoff-leader-stricker-becoming-133257.html
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Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Senator Edward Kennedy arrives to speak to the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, July 27, 2004. Mr. Kennedy, the last of the storied band of brothers who appeared born to rule, has died after
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Pakistan News.net
http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=27582481&cat=2411cd3571b4f088
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President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral, memorializing the last political elder of the family that has fascinated Americans with its ambition, style, idealism and tragedies for decades.
FILE - This
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eTaiwan News
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1043159&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_world&cate_rss=WORLD_eng
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...auditor searching a sample of records at three Town Fair stores in New Hampshire found 313 invoices that listed a Massachusetts address for the customer.The Department of Revenue then assessed about $109,000 in uncollected use taxes to Town Fair. The decision...
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Wall Street Journal
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BOSTON—The state's highest court ruled Tuesday that Massachusetts can't collect taxes from a retail chain that sells tires to Massachusetts residents in New Hampshire, a longtime sales tax free-haven for Bay State shoppers.
Massachusetts officials said
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Boston Globe
http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=202ea1f612099d53191939479bc4091d
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Boston – Massachusetts' highest court has ruled the state has no right to collect taxes from a retail chain that sold tires to Massachusetts residents in New Hampshire.
Massachusetts authorities said their case was narrowly focused, but others saw
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The Union Leader
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...and so on. When the Massachusetts plan began they already had a much lower uninsured rate compared to other states. Also, Massachusetts residents have an above average annual income. Thus, Massachusetts would fair much better than other states running a similar...
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Town Hall
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http://patrickbohan.blogtownhall.com/2009/08/24/obamacares_model_massachusetts.thtml
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www.boston.com — Under the 2004 law, if Kennedy were to die or step down, voters would select his successor in a special election to be held within five months of the vacancy. But the law makes no provisions for Massachusetts to be represented in the
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Beltway Blips
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http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/kennedy_looking_ahead_urges_a_quick_filling_of_senate/
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2009-08-19 23:51:02 -
executive vice president of BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section, stated, “By permitting only biofuels made from waste feedstocks under its mandate, Massachusetts is preventing its own biotech companies from
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/massachusetts-biofuel-plan-could-undercut-r1445099.htm
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Sorry, but it’s still true, my friends. Massachusetts beats the crap out of every other chump state in the country. My hometown paper tells you why:
PUNDITS and politicians who oppose universal healthcare for the nation have a new straw man to kick
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Sadly, No!
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SadlyNo/~3/Ak53yYsJ128/24156.html
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U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., speaks at a senior center in Dartmouth, Mass. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009 about health care reform and financial issues at a town hall-style meeting. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who
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ABC News
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_US/~3/dndMyMf2eU0/wireStory
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics, was celebrated Friday at a funeral Mass as a fearless warrior for the voiceless who changed the world for millions and an unconventional woman who smoked Cuban
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eTaiwan News
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1032171&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_world&cate_rss=WORLD_eng
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...on Monday accused President Obama of "pushing a health plan that looks a lot like the system currently hemorrhaging money in Massachusetts." The Republican governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, has also gotten his licks in. Costs in Massachusetts, he wrote...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/52550452.html
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In the irony of ironies category, Human Events interviews Mitt Romney about what America needs in a government health care system, Mitt Romney Talks Health Care Solutions based on his success in Massachusetts insuring all it’s citizens “without
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Minority Report
http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/blog_entry/aceintx/2009/07/31/is_mass_care_the_answer_for_america_mitt_romney_thinks_so
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Members of The White House staff work in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 30, 2009, where President Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Sgt. James Crowley will have a beer later Thursday.
President Barack Obama
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Idaho Statesman
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IdahostatesmancomNewsUpdates/~3/D4whAWStBcE/851153.html
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Associated Press Writer
Copyright 2009, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
BOSTON — Three years
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Rocky Mount Telegram
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/US_Health_Care_Lessons.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=1&cxcat=0
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In a move sure to bring limited-government federalists everywhere into gleeful concert with The Gay, Massachusetts is suing the federal government, alleging that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the commonwealth's 10th Amendment prerogative
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Reason
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/CiVGC6uo8xo/134674.html
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BOSTON—Massachusetts has challenged the federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, calling it "discriminatory and overreaching," and supporters say other states could follow suit.
The state, the first to legalize gay
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Boston Globe
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