This new Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if you want to call it that, is not just a Web site.

Everyone is frustrated by the first few weeks of Healthcare.gov, and everyone is looking for answers, including me.

I think it is clear we all agree that small lenders need access to the secondary markets so they can write more mortgages and they can get funding that they need through advances from the Federal Home Loan Banks.

In terms of the activities that you support, you are saying it would be for home loans and for student loans.

I want us to take better care of each other.

Leaders in Massachusetts, like generations of national leaders, sought to reform healthcare, not because it was easy, but because we all knew that the old system was broken for years.

I think it is important, if we are talking about mutuals and our investment, in effect, in the housing market in mutuals, to know exactly what activities would or would not be covered by that.

I was not asking that question. I was just asking you a simple question.

What we're saying is that's over with. That old value system was no good for this country.

no one deserved to be bankrupted or shut out of the healthcare system when they got sick.

before I start, I want to recognize the Boston Red Sox team for an outstanding historic season and to congratulate Red Sox Nation on their third World Series Championship in 10 years. Go Sox. The Red Sox mean so much to the Commonwealth of…

But that 22 percent is pretty impressive.