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• Proposed Health Insurance Fine Puts Small Businesses In A Fix
  August 07, 2009
  Source: Investor's Business Daily
  This report on how small businesses might react to a national health care reform plan cites Foundation-sponsored data on crowd out and includes information from Director of Policy and Research Shanna Shulman.
• Who Comes First In The State?
  July 12, 2009
  Source: Boston Globe
• Access-To-Care Problems Are Resurfacing In Mass.
  June 29, 2009
  Source: American Medical News
  This update article on Massachusetts health care reform references the 2008 Massachusetts Health Reform Survey by The Urban Institute, which is partially funded by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
• The Forbidding Arithmetic of Healthcare Reform
  June 28, 2009
  Source: Boston Globe
  In this opinion column, Globe writer Joan Vennochi discusses the costs of paying for healthcare reform and interviews Philip W. Johnston, chairman of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation Board of Directors.
• Costs Are Keeping Patients From Care
  - June 21, 2009
  Source: Boston Globe
  This article mentions The Access Project's Medical Debt Resolution Program, which was funded, in part, by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. The Foundation's work with the Medical Debt Resolution Program resulted in the publication of In Debt But Not Indifferent.
• Foundation Podcast Highlights Drug Marketing
  June 21, 2009
  Source: A Healthy Blog
• Barrios Leaving Blue Cross Foundation
  June 17, 2009
  Source: Boston Globe
• Nieman Foundation Announces 2009-2010 Nieman Fellows
  June 14, 2009
  Source: Nieman Foundation
  Martha Bebinger, a 2007 Health Coverage Fellow, has been named to the 2009-2010 class of Nieman Fellows. She will spend a year studying health care spending and the politics of trying to curb health care costs.
• Experts: Minorities Suffer From Persistent Disparities In Care
  June 12, 2009
  Source: Dorchester Reporter
  This is an account of a hearing on health care disparities before the Joint Committee on Public Health at which Foundation President Jarrett T. Barrios and Foundation Associate Director of Grantmaking and Evaluation Miriam Messinger testified.
• Joseph M. Smith Center Among Grant Recipients
  - June 05, 2009
  Source: The Daily News Tribune
  This story describes the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative led by the Commonwealth Fund and local co-funders, including the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative issues grants to support the transformation of community health centers into patient-centered medical homes. This story focuses on the Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center of Waltham and Allston, which received $90,000 in grants from the Pathways to Culturally Competent Care program area in 2007 and 2008, and $95,000 in grants from the Connecting Consumers with Care program area in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
• Partners vs. Metrowest
  June 04, 2009
  Source: Boston Globe editorial
  This editorial references the Massachusetts Health Reform Survey which was funded, in part, by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
• Calculating The Return On Investment Of Mobile Healthcare
  June 03, 2009
  Source: BMC Medicine
  This article in BMC Medicine, an online peer-reviewed journal, attempts to calculate how much money the free-care Family Van has saved the healthcare system. In 2003, the Family Van received a $30,000 Innovation Fund for the Uninsured grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
• Math Lessons From The Family Van
  June 03, 2009
  Source: National Public Radio
  This story explores how much money the free-care Family Van has saved the healthcare system. In 2003, the Family Van received a $30,000 Innovation Fund for the Uninsured grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
• Trying To Put A Price On Mobile Health Clinics
  June 03, 2009
  Source: Boston Globe
  This story explores how much money the free-care Family Van has saved the healthcare system. In 2003, the Family Van received a $30,000 Innovation Fund for the Uninsured grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
• Cape Patients Seek Cure for Doctor Shortage
  June 02, 2009
  Source: Cape Cod Times