Massachusetts Lawmakers Prioritize Health Policy
Katherine O'Malley
August 12, 2026
Massachusetts lawmakers made health policy their central focus of the 2025-2026 legislative session.
Massachusetts lawmakers made health policy their central focus of the 2025-2026 legislative session.
Massachusetts lawmakers made health policy their central focus of the 2025-2026 legislative session.
The July 2014 Milbank Memorial Fund Issue Brief examined and dismantled erroneous claims about Medicaid including that it’s worse for health than being uninsured. My latest post
I know I can get on a rant about our over-focusing on cancer screening. But that doesn’t mean there still aren’t areas things need improving.
In his paper on big data, Hal Varian distinguishes prediction from causal inference. This is welcome. First, on prediction: Machine learning is concerned primarily with prediction; the
Just out. Recommendation 1: ACP recommends management with increased fluid intake spread throughout the day to achieve at least 2 L of urine per day
Now that the one-year anniversary of the exchanges is upon us, I’d like to make a prediction about health law in a post-ACA era. Maybe
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2014, The New York Times Company). Among the many ideas that have been tossed around for decades on how
We found that, as has been previously reported, public trust in the leaders of the U.S. medical profession has declined sharply over the past half
One of the common knocks against emergency contraception (and against the HPV vaccine, for that matter), is that it will lead to fewer women practicing
My dentist offered me bitewing x-rays yesterday. From the chair, I asked Twitter whether I needed them. https://twitter.com/afrakt/status/529380232881766400 I received two, informative replies. First, oral
[A] growing body of literature [] calls for a renewed focus on [] nonmedical determinants of health. Unfortunately, interventions that address them— home visits, education,
Just over a year ago, Healthcare Triage’s first video was on the opening of the exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act, and what people
Below are my notes from skimming Relieving Pain in America, by the IOM (2011). The report covers the following topics, among others: What pain is,