Like many, I’ve been surprised that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has had such an impact on Massachusetts. After all…
Zohydro Ban: Disagreeing with Governor Patrick
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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is trying to ban Zohydro ER, a new prescription painkiller, under a state of emergency he’s declared to…
It has recently been brought to the attention of the good citizens of Massachusetts that we spend more than anybody else on…
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission released its preliminary cost trends report for 2013. In case anyone needed confirmation, Massachsuetts health care costs…
After years of big increases, the premium for my business’s HMO from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts flattened for our September…
Health insurance in Massachusetts is more expensive than anywhere else in the country and yet the state is able to afford universal…
Governor Deval Patrick is rightly proud of the progress Massachusetts has made in health reform. Essentially every child has health insurance and…
An important reason that medical costs are so high in Massachusetts is that residents are accustomed to visiting major teaching hospitals for…
Defending Tiered Health Plans
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Tiered health plans cutting costs, restricting options in today’s Boston Globe raises reasonable questions about new benefit designs from Massachusetts insurers that…