One more bureaucracy
http://www.wickedlocal.com/weston/news/opinions/x85612467/Archambault-One-more-bureaucracy#axzz2NcNYjWOG Last week, the Massachusetts House of Representatives released a bill proposing big changes to how we pay for health care. While it consolidates a few state agencies, the House bill creates a massive new agency, the Division of Health Care Cost and Quality. The Division is given broad regulatory powers that can reach into most aspects of health care. Since the Division’s management will decide where billions of dollars will be directed and how millions of lives are treated, do we trust their judgment? Strikingly, the Division will be independent and “not subject to the supervision and control of any other” public entity. Given that health care contributes to 18 percent of our state’s economy, are we comfortable with […]