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.
Just in case folks don’t read comments, here are some good ones by steve and another by Jay related to my recent posts about Medicaid
Avik Roy responds to my post. He lists several more studies that find Medicaid patients have far worse outcomes than privately insured ones and the
Two articles of interest in yesterday’s Boston Globe. I don’t have time to comment much. Insurers hawk plans with less choice, by Reed Abelson As
Never draw broad policy conclusions from one study. It could hurt your brain. Well it hurts mine, anyway. Avik Roy writes, Medicaid so severely underpays
This is interesting: The NHS in England is to undergo a radical reorganisation, with GPs commissioning most services and the abolition of primary care trusts
Go read this post by Austin Frakt. He’s more forgiving than I am and takes a kinder tone, but I agree.
Product differentiation is the term for variations in characteristics of products within the same market. Without differentiation, products are commodities. Corn is corn, oil is
I’m interested in all sensible, good faith efforts to improve our health care system. Whenever I encounter a new idea I try to take it
A 2009 American Hospital Association paper expansively titled “The Case for Reinvigorating Antitrust Enforcement for Health Plan Mergers and Anticompetitive Conduct to Protect Consumers and
Tyler Cowen and Mark Thoma get credit for drawing my attention to George Loewenstein’s and Peter Ubel’s NY Times column on the limits of behavioral