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 following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2014, The New York Times Company). Given all the talk about the hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in recent weeks, as well as
It is not unusual for a health services research study section (the group of experts who review research proposals and make funding recommendations) to include
Remember the “like it, keep it” fiasco and the Obama administration’s effort to fix it? West Virginia certainly does. Two weeks ago, it filed a
It’s happened to me numerous times and, judging by my email, to my colleague Keith Humphreys recently. Sometimes you just need a reasonable figure and
Last time was Germany. This time it’s Switzerland: Switzerland! It’s a gorgeous alpine nation of 8 million people. It’s a parliamentary republic made up of
I’ve done this enough that friends have sometimes asked if they could accompany us on our yearly adventure. Two families were supposed to join us,
In a post last week—which you should read if you don’t know what an “instrumental variable” (IV) is—I described the key assumption for a good
Yesterday, the Washington Examiner’s health policy wonk Philip Klein posted a column titled “One of Obama’s big ideas for reforming health care failed a test
Via Nicholas Bagley: In case you missed it, I posted on the squid’s point on Thursday. @afrakt
Back in the 20th Century, I gave a talk on how electronic health records were so far behind what we’d been promised. I made a
Discuss the cost of social services long enough and someone’s bound to remind you that the taxes that fund them impose a “deadweight loss.” A
Though there are lots of sources to learn about instrumental variables (IV), in this post I’ll point to three papers I found particularly helpful. I’ve already