The Massachusetts General Court,formally the General Court of Massachusetts,is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in the state capital of Boston. The name "General Court" is a holdover from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,when the colonial assembly,in addition to making laws,sat as a judicial court of appeals. Before the adoption of the state constitution in 1780,it was called the Great and General Court,but the official title was shortened by John Adams,author of the state constitution. It is a bicameral body. The upper house is the Massachusetts Senate which is composed of 40 members. The lower body,the Massachusetts House of Representatives,has 160 members;until 1978,the state house had 240 members. It meets in the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill in Boston.
Robert Coldwell Wood was an American political scientist,academic and government administrator,and professor of political science at MIT. From 1965 to 1969,Wood served as the Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon B. Johnson,and for two weeks as the Secretary at the end of the Johnson Administration.
Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston,Massachusetts. It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of Harvard Medical School/Harvard University,and houses the world's largest hospital-based research program with an annual research budget of more than $1.2 billion in 2021. It is the third-oldest general hospital in the United States with a patient capacity of 999 beds. Along with Brigham and Women's Hospital,Mass General is a founding member of Mass General Brigham,formerly known as Partners HealthCare,the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts.
Deval Laurdine Patrick is an American politician who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was the first African-American Governor of Massachusetts and the first Democratic governor of the state since Michael Dukakis left office in 1991. Patrick served from 1994 to 1997 as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton. He was briefly a candidate for President of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Julio JoséFrenk Mora is a Mexican physician and sociologist who served the sixth president of the University of Miami from 2015 to 2024.
Howard Kyongju Koh is the former United States Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009.
Therese Murray is an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 2007 to 2015. Murray,a Democrat,was the first woman to lead a house of the Massachusetts General Court. She represented the Plymouth and Barnstable district in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 to 2015.
The Massachusetts health care reform,commonly referred to as Romneycare,was a healthcare reform law passed in 2006 and signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney with the aim of providing health insurance to nearly all of the residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Arnold Seymour Relman —known as Bud Relman to intimates —was an American internist and professor of medicine and social medicine. He was editor of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) from 1977 to 1991,where he instituted two important policies:one asking the popular press not to report on articles before publication and another requiring authors to disclose conflicts of interest. He wrote extensively on medical publishing and reform of the U.S. health care system,advocating non-profit delivery of single-payer health care. Relman ended his career as professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School in Boston,Massachusetts.
Salvatore Francis "Sal" DiMasi is a former Democratic state representative in Massachusetts. The former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives originally joined the state legislature in 1979,as a member of the Democratic Party. He eventually resigned from this post in January 2009,just six months prior to being indicted on several Federal charges,including conspiracy to defraud the federal government,extortion,mail fraud and wire fraud. DiMasi was found guilty on 7 of 9 federal corruption charges on June 15,2011. DiMasi is the third consecutive Massachusetts house speaker to later become a convicted felon due to crimes committed in office.
Mitt Romney was sworn in as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts on January 2,2003,along with Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey. Romney's term ended on January 4,2007;he chose not to run for re-election.
Samuel Osiah Thier was professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard University. He earned his medical degree at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in 1960. He previously served as the president of Brandeis University from 1991–1994 and the president of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1994-96.
Ernest Amory Codman,M.D.,was an American surgeon who made contributions to anaesthesiology,radiology,duodenal ulcer surgery,orthopaedic oncology,shoulder surgery,and the study of medical outcomes.
Donald M. Berwick is a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to his work in the administration,he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement a not-for-profit organization.
Warren Eugene Tolman is an American politician who has served as a member of both houses of the Massachusetts General Court. He was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1998,and was a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002,and Massachusetts Attorney General in 2014.
Norman Daniels is an American political philosopher and philosopher of science,political theorist,ethicist,and bioethicist at Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before his career at Harvard,Daniels had built his career as a medical ethicist at Tufts University in Medford,Massachusetts,and at Tufts University School of Medicine,also in Boston. He also developed the concept of accountability for reasonableness with James Sabin,an ethics framework used to challenge the healthcare resource allocation in the 1990s.
Michael John Barrett is an American politician noted for having been elected to serve in three completely different state legislative districts over the course of his political career. At present he is the state senator for the 3rd Middlesex District of Massachusetts. Barrett served in the State Senate earlier,in 1987–1994,representing another district,before moving to his present home in suburban Lexington in 1996. Even earlier,in 1979–1985,he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from a district comprising Reading,North Reading and a portion of Wilmington.
Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009,he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He was recently a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy,a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute,senior fellow at the Milken Institute,and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.
Rashi Fein was an American health economist termed "a father of Medicare" in the United States and "an architect of Medicare",was Professor of Economics of Medicine,Emeritus,in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School,and the author of the book Medical Care,Medical Costs:The Search for a Health Insurance Policy.
Paul Reville is a U.S. politician,teacher,school principal,and educational researcher who was the Massachusetts Secretary of Education from 2008 to 2013 under Governor Deval Patrick. He currently serves as the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
