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It has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: Big stars. Big budget Hollywood advertising push. Dark, salacious story line. But the new movie, "Spotlight," which chronicles the Globe's revelations of the sexual abuse of children by some Catholic clergy, is also bound to be filled
fraud
As if the Affordable Care Act's massive increase in government intervention in the U.S. health care system was not enough of a problem, it appears that the system practically invites waste, fraud and abuse, according to a series of government oversight reports. In the latest report, the
Massachusetts
Should physician-assisted suicide be legal in Massachusetts? Some say the measure helps people seeking to avoid a painful death, others believe unintended consequences could easily arise when insurers are left to choose expensive, life-prolonging treatments or cheap, fatal drugs. What do you believe? YES NO UNDECIDED
Obamacare
If only we could get profits out of the system, then things would work right. That's what proponents of government-run health care often suggest. Yet ObamaCare's "co-ops" – including one in Massachusetts – are proving that health care must be run like a business, or it
Massachusetts
In this increasingly permissive age, we are told that drug abuse is a victimless crime. The Wikipedia entry for "victimless crime" includes "recreational drug use." In July, President Obama commuted the sentences of nearly four dozen men and women convicted of selling drugs (mainly crack or
Massachusetts
By any standard – the physical and metaphysical – former Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) should not be alive today considering the extreme comorbidity of his mental illnesses and addictions. That is one of several conclusions one might reach from Kennedy's extraordinarily engrossing memoir, "A Common Struggle" (Blue
trump
The race for the Republican presidential nomination is not turning out as the mainstream media predicted. Six short months ago, the press had all but anointed former Florida governor Jeb Bush as the GOP's 2016 nominee. Last summer, when enthusiasm for Bush turned out to be lower than
Immigration
How immigrants impact the American economy is a question open to, often fierce, debate. Do immigrants take American jobs or complement American workers? Do they contribute to our fiscal coffers or drain them by over-consuming benefits? Although these important questions are unlikely to be answered definitively any time in the
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