Josh Archambault

February 15, 2023

As COVID-19 Emergencies Ease, Some Progress on Telehealth Rules

A new report from Reason Foundation, Cicero Institute and Pioneer Institute rates every state’s telehealth policy for patient access and ease of providing virtual care. The report highlights telehealth policy best practices for states.
October 22, 2018

Study Finds MassHealth’s Enhanced Eligibility Verification Saves $250 Million a Year

Reforms fixed MassHealth’s $1.2 billion eligibility crisis, freed up money to be redirected to needy recipients BOSTON – Enhanced eligibility verification allowed MassHealth, the Commonwealth’s Medicaid program, to save significant resources that could be redirected to the care of truly needy Medicaid recipients,...
May 17, 2017

Pioneer Experts Offer Contrasting Prescriptions For MA Healthcare

BOSTON - New policy briefs from Josh Archambault and Barbara Anthony, two senior fellows in healthcare at Pioneer Institute, offer differing prescriptions for how Massachusetts should navigate uncertainty in the healthcare market, as Congress debates the fate of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).
March 13, 2017

With Federal Health Law Facing Repeal, New Book Offers Alternative

U-Turn: America’s Return to State Healthcare Solutions (114 pp, Pioneer Institute, Boston, $9.95) BOSTON — With Congress and the Trump administration debating the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new book proposes that states take the lead in healthcare reform and Washington facilitate...
January 6, 2015

Baker’s Dozen: A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor

Pioneer Institute is pleased to present, “Baker’s Dozen: A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor” – 13 steps we can take that cover everything from transforming incentives in the system and bringing transparency to pricing, to needed reforms to our...
September 5, 2013

ACA Medicare Payroll Tax Costs MA $1.7B Over 10 Years; 3 Patriots to Pay $707,850 in 2013

ACA also includes additional 3.8% Medicare tax on net investment income; Bay State residents disproportionately impacted by both BOSTON – Under the financing provisions of the federal Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (ACA), some Massachusetts residents will face an annual Medicare payroll...
October 22, 2012

Pioneer’s 2013 Health Care Policy Agenda

Pioneer’s 2013 Agenda in Health Care Policy, Presented by Josh Archambault, Director of the Center for Healthcare Solutions
June 1, 2012

Video Friday

http://insureblog.blogspot.ie/2012/06/video-friday.html Cato’s Michael Cannon has been on a tear lately, advocating that states pro-actively shun setting up ObamneyCare© Exchanges. Here, he explains why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbmzAMZnJw&feature=player_embedded If you’ve been following the Pioneer Institute’s series on the latest MassCare Payment Reform train-wreck efforts, here’s Part...
May 7, 2012

The Great Experiment

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...
March 26, 2012

STERGIOS and ARCHAMBAULT: The way forward post-Obamacare

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/26/the-way-forward-post-obamacare/?page=all#pagebreak The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing  oral arguments on the constitutionality of the federal health care law President  Obama pushed through Congress two years ago, the  Patient Protection and Affordable Care  Act. The court is expected to issue an  opinion by...