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A Payment Reform Commission in Massachusetts has been meeting for the past few months and discussing - natch - reforming the way health plans and government purchasers like Medicare and Medicaid...
Every once in a while, one of the most well known health care blog sites in this country is kind enough to cross-post one of my musings. The site - www.thehealthcareblog.com - is a...
There was a pretty interesting article in the op-ed section of the Wall Street Journal the other day entitled, “‘Alternative Medicine’ Is Mainstream.â€Â The thrust of the story was that...
A good friend of mine sent me an op-ed from the Washington Post the other day that talked about the 5 myths of health care reform. It was written by Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel. ...
The following post is being posted on a number of blogs - including this one - across the blogosphere today in an attempt to help people focus on the choices we would all want to make for...
As the Senate begins debate on its health reform bill we should ask whether the bill is really about reform. I say this because it appears to be about covering the uninsured (a good thing) potentially at the expense of the currently insured and the...
As a non profit, mission driven health plan, we have given a lot of thought to the ethics of our role as a health insurer. The framework we use embraces two core values – fidelity to the needs of individual patients and responsible stewardship of the...
I try not to toot the Harvard Pilgrim horn too much in these postings, but I can’t let the fact go by that we have been recognized for the fifth year in a row by U.S. News & World Report and the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) as the...
The current House and Senate versions of federal health reform legislation have at least one thing in common: they will increase health insurance premiums. Consider this list of House and Senate proposals:
o $6.7 billion annual tax on health...
The major driver of commercial health care premium increases is not the use of health care services, which accounts for less than a third of annual premium increases, but unit costs. In other words, the price of health care is driving up commercial...
