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Massachusetts Medicaid “Savings” in Trouble?
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The New York Times reports
In a new effort to increase access…
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Connector Saving Taxpayer Money
On this blog-- and in the press-- I have often been critical…
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Governor Deval Patrick’s Missing Chapter on Transparency
Governor Deval Patrick's new autobiography, "A Reason to Believe:…
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Gov Patrick Confused on Economics on “Daily Show”
Governor Patrick was on Comedy Central's "Daily Show" Tuesday…
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Romney Gets ALL the Credit for RomneyCare?
Today is the 5th anniversary of the signing of Chapter 58 (health…
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Labor leader in a glass house
Talk about throwing stones from a glass house.
Robert Haynes,…
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Gilded benefits clash with ‘fair share’
Public employee unions leaders love to talk about “fair share”…
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A way to bend the cost curve up
Minimum staffing provisions in public sector union contracts…
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Health Care Econ-101 For Governor
During an appearance on WTKK-FM today, Governor Patrick dipped…
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CMS Ignites ACO (Accountable Care Organizations) Debate
Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…
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Medicaid’s Drug Problem: $329 million a year
I have blogged before about the problems that we have here…
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FactCheck.org: ‘RomneyCare’ Facts and Falsehoods
A reporter from FactCheck.org visited Pioneer's office a couple…
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Obamacare superstar sales team goes missing
Here’s yet more evidence that, in the year since Nancy Pelosi…
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Report Urges Reforms to Massachusetts Connector
Pioneer Institute lays out seven steps to correct the Connector’s over-reliance on revenue generated from subsidized insurance products, and aid the small business community.
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VIDEO DEBATE: Obamacare One Year Out
With the one year anniversary of the passage and signing of the…
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WSJ: “The Massachusetts Health-Reform Mess” Swing and Miss
The late John Calfee, has an opinion piece in the WSJ this morning…
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“For small businesses, a hesitancy to hire”
An illustrative piece in the Boston Globe today by Megan Woolhouse…
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Real Competition at the Health Connector?
The Connector Board yesterday moved forward with plans to introduce…
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Governor Patrick’s Budget on Health Care: Playing Around the Edges
Medicaid (MassHealth)
The Administration is feeling the heat…
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Feds plug the Money Hole in Massachusetts Health Reform?
To close the loop from an earlier post on federal money being…
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Troubling Cost Trends in Massachusetts Health Care
Two trends that might determine the long term success of health…
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Health $ Elbow Out Kids, Cops and Trees
Just wanted to share a dramatic graph from a recent Boston Foundation…
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Payment Reform: No Government Mandate Needed
The move in the health sector towards payment reform took a big…
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Decrease Insurance Premiums or You’ll Be Sleeping with the Fishes
A study released this morning may lay out the possible future…
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Ryan & Rivlin on containing health care costs
This week's Economist has an article worth reading on the various…
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Massachusetts Health Care Transparency: Bright Enough Spotlight?
Massachusetts officials published online this week a database…
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Pioneer Senior Fellow on PBS's NewsHour
Pioneer's Senior Fellow on Health Care, Amy Lischko, was interviewed…
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Health Care Costs Crushing States– Is the Solution to Drop out of Medicaid?
The headline says it all.
“States' Woes Spur Medicaid Drop-Out…
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Health Care in the Mid-terms: What the Polls really tell us
Trying to read the tea leaves of poll numbers on the general…
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American as baseball, apple pie and primary care doctors?
Harvard Medical School recently announced an anonymous gift of…