What can Oklahoma Teach Massachusetts on Healthcare?

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More patients and companies are moving away from traditional healthcare; this video of the Oklahoma Surgery Center explains why.

Inefficiency at Wellesley Schools stifles transparency

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Sometimes the smaller the bureaucracy gets, the more inefficient…

Can Mass ACOs & ICOs Co-Exist? Wait…What is an ICO?

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For those keeping track at home, ACO is the acronym for an…

9 States to Watch for ACA Implementation

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Healthcare reporters have been in a frenzy to report this week…

Fallout from election 2012 on education

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  You can summarize the fallout of the elections on schools…

Indiana’s airball on national education standards

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  Basketball fans will remember the scene from the epic…

Why is the state not implementing the MCAS for U.S. history?

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We are in the middle of a U.S. Senate campaign and, while…

Responding to Cadillac Tax Report Concerns

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Pioneer's recent report on the Cadillac tax has garnered a good…

Big ACA Middle-Class Tax Increase in Mass, $87K for Small Biz Employee

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Pioneer is releasing a new brief estimating the impact of…

Case Study-When Politics Influences Policy: Liberal Health Wonks from Mass

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This afternoon FamiliesUSA released a report from a trifecta…

If Doctors Know the Price, Would It Change Behavior? Essay Contest

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The great folks over at Costs of Care have opened their…

NYT: Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic

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The theory of cost savings don't always match what happens in…

Does Health IT Guarantee Better Care & Save Money?

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Given the near universal HIT mandate in Chapter 224 of the…

Huck, Jim and our interest in education

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Twain famously noted that the difference between the right…

The Democrats’ Platform on K-12 Education

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Here is the Democratic National Platform on K-12 education,…

The GOP Platform on K-12 Education

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Here is the Republican platform on K-12 education, taken from…

$14B in Medicare Cuts under ACA for Massachusetts

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During the Presidential race, we have heard a lot about the $716…

Do Patient-Centered Medical Homes Save Money?

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Locally, much has been made about the Massachusetts Patient-Centered…

Schools and the conventional wisdoms

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Facts are, as John Adams famously noted, “stubborn things.”…

New England Raking in $$$ for ACA Exchanges, $351 million and counting

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Josh Archambault, Director of Healthcare Policy at Pioneer Institute…

An expert’s view of national standards’ focus on non-fiction texts

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(Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times) The Common Core national…

Change Coming for FSAs? Drop the “Use-it-or-Lose-It” Rule

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HT to Meghan McCarthy at National Journal for the report and…

Sunset the Lawrence district school monopoly

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One of two kids in the Lawrence Public School system do not…

Grossman wants to look squarely at reality

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The treasurer’s call for a cut in the pension’s rate of return…

Rent Seeking in Mass Price Capping Law

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After Moody's issued a credit negative analysis for hospitals…

Medicaid Patient Access in Mass

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Yesterday the Massachusetts Medical Society released its annual…

Moody’s Report: New Mass Price Capping Law “Credit Negative” for Hospitals

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In the soon to be long list of unintended consequences as…

Funny Business Ahead in Massachusetts?

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Over at the Manhattan Institute, Paul Howard recently blogged…

The right reform path in Lawrence?

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There are two issues that matter in K-12 education - what you…