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October 9, 2014

An Open Letter to Governor Deval Patrick about Healthcare Cost Overruns

This letter was sent via email to the Patrick Administration earlier today.  October 9, 2014 Governor Deval Patrick Massachusetts State House Office of the Governor Room 105 Boston, MA 02133 Dear Governor Patrick: On Monday the State House News Service reported your statements...
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September 17, 2014

The Health Connector Authority Protesting Too Much

In FY2011, the year prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act, the administrative budget of the Massachusetts Health Connector Authority was $29 million.  By FY2013, while the Connector Authority struggled to implement its change to ACA, its budget had risen to...
Healthcare
September 17, 2014

Deval's Big Dig: Responding to the Governor on Connector Report

When we talk about the Big Dig, we talk in big, round numbers. Why?  Because it cost gobs of money. You can debate whether it was worth it, and for years we did. Journalists dug into the story. Careers were dashed and...
Healthcare
September 17, 2014

Study: $1B Price Tag for ACA Health Exchange & New Medicaid Program in Mass.

Study: $1 Billion Price Tag for ACA Health Exchange & New Medicaid Program in Massachusetts Over half due to two-year cost of switch to new ACA website at the Connector BOSTON – The cost of transitioning to an Affordable Care Act compliant health...
Healthcare
May 12, 2014

2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture Keynote Speaker: Tom Miller

Tom Miller is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He spoke at the Pioneer Institute’s 2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture: “What Just Happened and What’s Ahead for the Affordable Care Act,” May 6, 2014.
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May 12, 2014

2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture: Uwe Reinhardt

Uwe Reinhardt speaks at the Pioneer Institute’s 2014 Hewitt Health Care Lecture: “What Just Happened & What’s Ahead for the Affordable Care Act.” Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...
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May 6, 2014

Massachusetts to Default to Healthcare.gov, After Hail Mary to Save Its Exchange

Yesterday Massachusetts officials announced plans to default to Healthcare.gov, but also announced a quixotic sprint to try first try to rebuild the entire site in five months with a brand new, no-bid taxpayer-paid contract to health care software developer hCentive. This move...
Healthcare
April 15, 2014

100+ Unanswered Questions about the Failed Connector ACA Website

As a result of the failed Connector website, 160,000 Massachusetts residents are on temporary public Medicaid coverage even though they don’t qualify for MassHealth. Failure at the Connector will cost Massachusetts taxpayers over $100 million dollars this year. So, Pioneer has questions...
Healthcare
April 11, 2014

Fall River Herald News: Guest Opinion: Mass. Health Care Connector's failures show disconnect of ACA exchanges

By Josh Archambault Date: April 10, 2014 Read it here. Seven months after open enrollment began under the Affordable Care Act, Massachusetts’ online health insurance exchange doesn’t work, and the state government is just firing the primary contractor CGI, without a final...
Healthcare
March 30, 2014

Mass Connector Called Before Congress To Explain Failed Rollout

Chris Cassidy at the Boston Herald is reporting that Jean Yang, the executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, will be called before two Congressional committees to explain the failings of the exchange under the ACA on Thursday April 3rd at 10am....