Mike Mennonno dissects the state's new health-insurance law, the one the Globe loves to bits.

Jay Fitzgerald dissects the argument that legislators are doing the right thing by breaking their constitutional responsibilities.

Sam Blackman is a pediatric oncologist. The holiday season is hard on him - he discusses how he reacts:

... This will be the third December in a row for me spent entirely wrapped up in the impending death of a patient. Holidays and cancer deaths go together like full moons and emergency room visits ...

Paul Levy reports that, effective Wednesday, state mental-health hospitals will no longer accept new patients for treatment, due to those budget cuts Gov. Romney made. Levy, who runs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, writes:

Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe writes of the problems she had finding a new primary-care physician when her current doctor announced he was moving to a "concierge" model that would mean much higher upfront costs for her:

... I do understand his position but desire for a different work style. But I can offer him one huge reason to not go down this new path: his loyal patients. He is pricing out the majority of people he currently cares for. In essence what he is really saying is he'll only care for the uberrich.

Beth Israel CEO Paul Levy has had quite enough (no, really) with deceptive drug-company ads and the unthinking media that abandon their souls to run them.

Beth Israel Deaconess CEO Paul Levy explains why he opposes a liver-transplant program at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center:

Looks like you might get to vote this fall on whether to add health care as a right guaranteed by the state constitution.

UPDATE: No, you won't.

Sushiesque posts photos of protesters outside today's legislative Constitutional Convention.

When you find a lump in one of your breasts, the last thing you want is the medical vortex of insanity Ellen McCullough found herself in.

Eliot Gelwan, a psychiatrist, reads about problems people in Britain have getting affordable dental care and says he feels their pain:

... None of my MassHealth (the version of Medicaid here) patients have any dental benefits, and it is getting more and more difficult to find even emergency services for them. From time to time, the underlying reason why someone presents to me with a mental health problem such as despondency or suicidality (which MassHealth still pays for) is agonizing dental disease. ...