MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA

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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…

The Clock is Ticking…….

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The clock is ticking towards December 30, 2017.  As part of…

The perfect storm facing Jewish Day Schools

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More than 100,000 students in 10 states - including Rhode Island and New Hampshire - are currently educated under tax credit programs. Massachusetts has so many exceptional private and parochial education options, and our school children deserve the same options. Jewish Day Schools, for example, are facing a perfect storm of rising costs and declining philanthropic support.

Boston.com – “Inside the Hive”: State officials don’t have experience to play green tech investor

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What state policymakers can do to help build our green energy sector.

Students in which states are climbing the highest?

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Reformers in other states, even ones with a sharp eye on keeping costs down, would do well to look at Massachusetts as much and, frankly, even more than Florida.

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…