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 title of Ezra Klein’s post is “An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate.” You should read the interview to find out
Aaron G comments: Doesn’t the fact that this is a unprecedented expansion of Federal power concern you at all if the mandate is ruled constitutional?
If you’re in the Midwest, you know that there are ridiculous weather conditions right now. We in Indianapolis had about an inch of ice last
I don’t have time or, frankly, expertise to say much about Judge Vinson’s ruling on the constitutionality (or lack thereof) of the new health reform
I had posted a scanned version of Michael Morrisey’s out-of-print cost shifting book. Yesterday, AEI press found a better looking one. It’s here. Enjoy.
Prerequisite: read part 1. In it, I note that Morrisey’s book on cost shifting includes something none of the other work on the subject does, a
What I said last time still holds: Chill. Evidently, Judge Vinson ruled PPACA unconstitutional. He specifically cited the lack of a severability clause. I’m not
This is astounding. Seriously though, are they cost shifting from online services to purchasers of other products? Discuss.
In today’s and tomorrow’s post, I’ll be drawing from Michael Morrisey’s 1994 AEI Press book on cost shifting. If you want to be an expert on cost