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Healthcare
October 5, 2012

Big "Cadillac Tax" Ahead for Massachusetts' Middle Class

A new brief from Pioneer Institute, The Impact of the Federal Health Law’s “Cadillac Insurance Tax” in Massachusetts, estimates additional costs associated with the ACA's so-called "Cadillac tax," will affect well over 50% of workers in Massachusetts.
Healthcare
March 13, 2012

WITH FEDERAL HEALTH LAW FACING SUPREME COURT TEST, NEW BOOK OFFERS ALTERNATIVE

Pioneer's new book, The Great Experiment, proposes that the states take the lead in health-care reform, as Massachusetts did in 2006, and that Washington facilitate the transition, rather than try to dictate every move.
Healthcare
September 8, 2011

A Fair and Cost Effective Tort System for Health Care

New study calls for comprehensive tort reform to address rise in number and average cost of malpractice payouts, and increase in insurance premiums, up by 63% in 2009 since 2001
Healthcare
June 23, 2011

Business Solutions to the Health Care Crunch in the Bay State

New report presents case studies of companies that have successfully controlled health care spending through proven strategies
Healthcare
March 17, 2011

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.
Healthcare, Opportunity
January 11, 2008

Minute Clinics are coming

This space has been a supporter of in-store limited service clinics in the past. And the state’s Public Health Council, despite some misgivings, just approved the regulations which will allow these clinics to begin opening. And good for them, they approved blanket...
Education, Healthcare, Opportunity
December 1, 2002

Rationalizing Health and Human Services

Author: Charles D. Baker, Jr. The proposal to rationalize health and human services presumes that EOHHS would eliminate its existing operating agencies over time and replace them with an integrated Secretariat organized along functional, rather than product, lines. In this model, each...
American Citizenship, Healthcare, Opportunity
June 1, 2000

An Economic History of Health Care in Massachusetts 1990-2000

Author: Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. This report examines the Massachusetts health care system during the tumultuous period from the late 1980s to the close of the 1990s. This timeframe begins with the attempt in 1988 to become the first state in the...
American Citizenship, Healthcare, Opportunity
February 1, 1999

Nonprofit to For-Profit Conversions in Health Care

Privatization is a term that has triggered passionate debate in recent years. Here in Massachusetts, a law to stop it has been enacted. What we are really debating, however, is not true privatization at all. Privatization implies a complete withdrawl of government...