Oped: Healthcare

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2884604/posts PRICES WERE OUT OF CONTROL at the end of 3rd-century Rome, and the Emperor Diocletian was determined to rein them in. In AD 301 he issued his famous Edict on Prices, a complex piece of legislation that banned speculation and established...

http://www.wickedlocal.com/weston/news/opinions/x85612467/Archambault-One-more-bureaucracy#axzz2NcNYjWOG Last week, the Massachusetts House of Representatives released a bill  proposing big changes to how we pay for health care. While it consolidates a few  state agencies, the House bill creates a massive new agency, the Division of  Health Care Cost...

http://www.redstate.com/tex_whitley/2012/05/31/massachusetts-plans-to-squeeze-doctors-to-control-health-care-costs/ On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Josh Archambault to discuss the Massachusetts effort to manage health care costs by squeezing the state’s doctors, how it will impact the quality of care, and...

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2012/05/11/massachusetts-health-care-reform-record-time/ If you blinked over the past seven days, you might have missed the roll-out of two major pieces of legislation that will dramatically restructure health care delivery in Massachusetts.  While the Governor put his proposal out more than a year ago,...

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/05/health-reform-reactions Times like this separate the true health reform wonks from the wannabes. Did you spend your weekend poring through H.4070, An Act relative to Health Care Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction Act of 2012, which was finally unveiled Friday afternoon? For...

http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2012/05/great-experiment.html If you read only one book about state and federal health care policy, it should be The Great Experiment: The States, the Feds and Your Healthcare.  Published by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute, it is the most articulate and rigorous presentation of...

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/04/mass-taxpayers-foundation-critics A new Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) study finds that in fiscal 2011, the state’s share of spending attributable to the 2006 health reform law was $453 million, or 1.4% of the $32 billion budget. And, when you look at the first...

http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2012/1/31/federal-overhaul-will-require-mass-to-adjust-its-health-reform-law.aspx#ixzz2O6SYjEp4 Although the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law contains many of the same  provisions as the federal health reform law, state officials must make changes  to comply with federal overhaul standards, Politico reports. About the Massachusetts Law The Massachusetts law was signed...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2012/04/18/another-take-budget-buster-report-health-law-was-more-expensive-one-analyst-says/P3MWkYqHtZG5MMYUGX6PvM/story.html Josh Archambault appreciates that there are other people in the state, besides him, trying to calculate the overall cost of the 2006 Massachusetts law requiring most residents to have health insurance.  And, he said, he thinks a report out last week...

http://www.massdevice.com/news/ex-medicare-chief-berwick-medical-device-industry-doing-lot-protect-patients?page=3 Erstwhile Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief Dr. Donald Berwick tells MassDevice.com that, despite a clutch of headline-grabbing recalls, medical device makers are doing good work for patients. Public health pioneer and onetime Centers for Medicare & Medicaid chief Dr....