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.
Doug Elmendorf, Director of CBO gave a speech this morning to the World Health Congress on the challenges of restraining federal health spending. He didn’t
Krugman weighs in, 1. Privatizing and voucherizing Medicare does nothing whatsoever to control costs. We’ve seen that from the sorry history of Medicare Advantage. I’m
If newspaper stories written 10 years from now say something like “the Medicare program is continuing its slow move away from fee-for-service payment that rewards
I know I’ve been bad about posting all of these, but I’ll try harder. I was on Sound Medicine again this weekend: It’s been just
If you live or will be in the Boston area this Wednesday night (April 6), you might consider coming to my talk at the Melrose
In brass duets, Don Nadeau and I are Boston regional champions, so declared on March 19, 2011 in a brass competition sponsored by The Buglers
A recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine included a concise exploration by Robert Kocher and Nikhil Sahni of an ongoing trend: increasingly
Uwe Reinhardt in Economix blog with an interesting essay on the Economics of Privately Sponsored Social Insurance.
We’re running out of fun stuff to post in this Saturday morning slot. Do you have any cartoons, jokes, or fun videos to share? Please
I’m getting a lot of emails, so I’m going to break it down even further. Here’s how the ACO payments and penalties work. Let’s start
The blogging business is changing. Traditional ways of monetizing blog content have become insufficient to cover costs. These facts are as true for The Incidental
Austin said the differences needed to be explained more clearly, so I made some charts. I’ve created a hypothetical ACO with 10,000 members. This ACO qualifies for