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Medicaid’s Massive Miasma: Taming Beacon Hill’s Burgeoning Budget Beast
/in Featured, News, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffMarc Joffe, a state policy analyst at the Cato Institute, talks about his research on Medicaid’s cost and size. They explore how Massachusetts can control spending growth while protecting other priorities.
Middlemen Pushing Up Retail Costs of Drugs
/in Blog, Blog: Healthcare, Blog: Healthcare Transparency, Blog: Medicaid, Featured, Health Care, Health Care Policy (Federal), Healthcare /by Gauri BinoyThe reality is that non-price factors, including several players, are causing net prices to decline and retail prices to increase. Those players include employers, health plans, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), all of whom have continuously circumvented the system through loopholes and complicated systems of reimbursement that tend to hurt patients
Milton Shuts the Door
/in Blog, Blog: Economy, Economic Opportunity, Featured, Housing, Housing, Pioneer Research /by Eileen McAnnenyon Multifamily Housing Plans
The MBTA Communities Act, passed in 2021, provides that the 177 communities serviced by the MBTA must create multifamily zones to spur housing development close to public transportation. But the issue is an emotionally charged one, with passions high on both sides. And Milton residents in February rejected a plan to create such housing ‚ choosing a loss of some state funding over an approximately 25 percent increase in their housing stock, along with the possibility of greater congestion.
on Multifamily Housing Plans
DFER-MA’s Mary Tamer on MCAS & Teacher Strikes
/in Education, Featured, Learning Curve, News, Podcast /by Editorial StaffMary Tamer focuses on the historic impact of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act on the commonwealth’s students’ high achievement on national and international measures. She explores the politics of the Massachusetts Teachers Association advocating against the MCAS test as a graduation requirement. In closing, Ms. Tamer also discusses the rise of teacher strikes and their implications for education reform in the Bay State.
Baystate Budget Blues: Declining Revenue Causes Concern
/in Featured, News, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi engages in a conversation with Pioneer Institute’s Eileen McAnneny, Senior Fellow for Economic Opportunity, to analyze the status of the 2024 budget. They compare actual revenue and spending with pre-July 1 estimates, investigating potential reasons for any surpluses or shortfalls. They also dive into policy implications for legislators as they approach fiscal 2025.