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Healthcare
September 1, 2021

Why are health care costs rising every year in Massachusetts?

The largest driver is the increase in prices by health systems that have the clout to command higher payments and work to recruit more patients to their high-cost facilities.
American Citizenship, Healthcare
May 20, 2020

In The Era Of COVID-19, Mass. Needs To Get Long-Term Care Right

This op-ed originally appeared in WGBH News. In much of the country, a substantial number of Covid-19 deaths have occurred in nursing homes. Too many states were caught unaware that crowding, poor infection control, insufficient isolation facilities, and lack of proper training...
Healthcare
July 17, 2017

Op-ed: Getting to yes on MassHealth

State leaders need to work together to tackle Medicaid challenge MASSACHUSETTS HAS A unique culture when it comes to health care.  Over the last quarter century, we have seen the business, provider, payer, consumer, and academic sectors come together to advance reforms aimed...
Healthcare
September 6, 2016

Op-ed: Health fee pinches taxpayers

Read this op-ed in the Boston Herald (September 4, 2016). Sometimes the Affordable Care Act (ACA) seems like part of history. While headlines about implementation pains persist, many changes are taking place under the radar. One such change that has received almost no...
Healthcare
June 1, 2016

Op-ed: Why Boston and Mass. need more walk-in clinics

Published in The Boston Globe, JUNE 01, 2016 AFTER NEARLY a decade of opposition, Boston may be on the verge of getting its first for-profit walk-in clinic. Although it’s not yet official, it appears the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals has approved an...
Healthcare
November 7, 2014

Boston Herald: To-do List for New Governor to Fix Health Site

By Josh Archambault and Eric Dahlberg. This op-ed originally appeared in the Boston Herald on Nov. 7, 2014. Our state health insurance exchange’s failed website will be one of the major headaches that Charlie Baker’s administration will inherit. Massachusetts’ first-in-the-nation Health Connector...
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...
American Citizenship, Healthcare
May 16, 2013

Boston Herald: Gov owes Obamacare diagnosi$

Op-Ed by Mary Connaughton & Josh Archambault Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Think because you live in Massachusetts you’re protected from the Obamacare insurance premium spikes that you have seen in the national news? Think again, especially if you work at a small company....
Healthcare
February 26, 2013

Worcester Telegram & Gazette op-ed: Put retiree health care to bid

Put retiree health care to bid AS I SEE IT http://www.telegram.com/article/20130226/ NEWS/102269882/1020/opinion By Josh Archambault and Casey Miles (published on Feb 26, 2013) Critics suggest changing insurers can be problematic, but at least two Massachusetts cities already competitively bid their health care...
Healthcare
October 15, 2012

Fall River Herald News: Beware ObamaCare's "Cadillac Tax" That's More Like a "Ford Tax"

President Barack Obama has consistently said that Massachusetts was the template for the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as ObamaCare. So the conventional wisdom has been that the new law won’t change much here. But a new Pioneer Institute study demonstrates...