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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.
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Inefficiency at Wellesley Schools stifles transparency
Sometimes the smaller the bureaucracy gets, the more inefficient…
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Can Mass ACOs & ICOs Co-Exist? Wait…What is an ICO?
For those keeping track at home, ACO is the acronym for an…
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9 States to Watch for ACA Implementation
Healthcare reporters have been in a frenzy to report this week…
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Don’t Count Your Chickens Before Elections: Tony Bennett’s Defeat in Indiana
In what you might call a “count your chickens before they…
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Fallout from election 2012 on education
You can summarize the fallout of the elections on schools…
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Indiana’s airball on national education standards
Basketball fans will remember the scene from the epic…
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Why is the state not implementing the MCAS for U.S. history?
We are in the middle of a U.S. Senate campaign and, while…
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Responding to Cadillac Tax Report Concerns
Pioneer's recent report on the Cadillac tax has garnered a good…
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Big ACA Middle-Class Tax Increase in Mass, $87K for Small Biz Employee
Pioneer is releasing a new brief estimating the impact of…
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Case Study-When Politics Influences Policy: Liberal Health Wonks from Mass
This afternoon FamiliesUSA released a report from a trifecta…
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If Doctors Know the Price, Would It Change Behavior? Essay Contest
The great folks over at Costs of Care have opened their…
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NYT: Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic
The theory of cost savings don't always match what happens in…
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Does Health IT Guarantee Better Care & Save Money?
Given the near universal HIT mandate in Chapter 224 of the…
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Huck, Jim and our interest in education
Twain famously noted that
the difference between the right…
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The Democrats’ Platform on K-12 Education
Here is the Democratic National Platform on K-12 education,…
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The GOP Platform on K-12 Education
Here is the Republican platform on K-12 education, taken from…
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$14B in Medicare Cuts under ACA for Massachusetts
During the Presidential race, we have heard a lot about the $716…
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Do Patient-Centered Medical Homes Save Money?
Locally, much has been made about the Massachusetts Patient-Centered…
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Schools and the conventional wisdoms
Facts are, as John Adams famously noted, “stubborn things.”…
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New England Raking in $$$ for ACA Exchanges, $351 million and counting
Josh Archambault, Director of Healthcare Policy at Pioneer Institute…
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An expert’s view of national standards’ focus on non-fiction texts
(Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times)
The Common Core national…
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Change Coming for FSAs? Drop the “Use-it-or-Lose-It” Rule
HT to Meghan McCarthy at National Journal for the report and…
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Sunset the Lawrence district school monopoly
One of two kids in the Lawrence Public School system do not…
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Grossman wants to look squarely at reality
The treasurer’s call for a cut in the pension’s rate of return…
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Rent Seeking in Mass Price Capping Law
After Moody's issued a credit negative analysis for hospitals…
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Medicaid Patient Access in Mass
Yesterday the Massachusetts Medical Society released its annual…
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Moody’s Report: New Mass Price Capping Law “Credit Negative” for Hospitals
In the soon to be long list of unintended consequences as…
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Funny Business Ahead in Massachusetts?
Over at the Manhattan Institute, Paul Howard recently blogged…
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The right reform path in Lawrence?
There are two issues that matter in K-12 education - what you…