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.
Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a report that examined the competitiveness of the individual and small-group insurance markets by state. Not surprisingly, they
There’s no reason to suffer with partial RSS feeds in your reader. You can convert them to full feeds here. I’ve just done a bunch,
Kaiser: How did the uninsured change during the recession? HHS: 4 page memo on CLASS suspension. CLASSdecision10-14-final (pdf) HHS: 48 page actuarial analysis of CLASS.
For those of you trained to look for a TIE podcast on Friday afternoons, you haven’t missed it. We just haven’t posted it. We’re a
Probably not. The full paper is here. It’s a real paper, about something you’ve likely heard about. My favorite part is this: The “short calculation”
Physician shortage in Massachusetts continues to squeeze primary care, reports Tanya Albert Henry. “Massachusetts is facing severe or critical shortages of doctors in eight specialties, including a
It clearly has flaws and I think that it is true that many LTC types knew this and felt that CLASS needed a conference bill
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In his NEJM Perspectives piece published this week, Henry Aaron makes the case that taxes must rise or else entitlement programs will fall. [I]f all
Urban: Containing growth of spending in the U.S. health care system RWJF: Reform in action: measuring physician performance and quality MEDPAC: Medicare payment overview (many
I agree with Aaron that self-insured companies will be health insurance (and wellness program) laboratories. (His two posts here and here.) They have been already.