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During President Obama’s Boston visit to talk about the ACA and the Massachusetts experiment, it is important to remember some context. Here are a few pictures that help to illustrate the successes and failures of Mass reform. However, caution should be used...

Today marks the 6th extension granted to the Commonwealth for the Medicaid waiver that serves as the foundation for our 2006 reform. I have written about this before here and here. As a review, the Massachusetts MassHealth 1115 waiver from the federal government...

This op-ed ran in the Boston Business Journal Friday September 2, 2011. Boston’s Children’s Hospital was recently recognized as the nation’s top hospital for children by U.S. News and World Report. But what will Obamacare and Gov. Patrick’s “Phase II” state health...

The summer has led to little news from the Legislature and Governor Patrick on the health policy front. Which, on the first day of September, left me to wonder whatever happened to the temporarily extended Massachusetts MassHealth 1115 waiver? Simply put, this...