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Health insurance isn't containing costs. It's fueling them.
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (248+ words) Dr. Ashish K. Jha is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School and a contributing Globe Opinion writer. Health insurance in America is supposed to protect people from financial catastrophe. Too often, it doesn't. Nearly four in…...
Business leaders discuss how to tackle health care costs. It won't be easy.
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (328+ words) Business and political leaders came together 20 years ago to pass a health care reform bill that became a national model, ensuring nearly every person in Massachusetts had coverage. Can the state's business community do it again? This time, the challenge…...
It's been 20 years since Romneycare sparked near-universal health insurance coverage in Mass. Now, that status is under threat.
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (723+ words) On the 20th anniversary of the law that revolutionized health insurance in Massachusetts, political leaders and health officials sounded the alarm that affordable and accessible coverage is in peril. "We face a cost crisis," Governor Maura Healey said at a Faneuil…...
Trump's Medicaid work mandates are meant to save money. But first states will have to spend millions.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (837+ words) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. " To receive Medicaid health coverage, some adults will soon have to show they are working, volunteering or taking classes. But to gather that proof, many states first will have to spend millions of dollars improving their computer…...
Amid fraud concerns, Mass. launching chip-enabled EBT cards this year, Healey says
1+ week, 6+ day ago (579+ words) Amid concerns of benefit fraud across Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey said Monday the state will begin piloting chip and tap-enabled cards later this year for recipients of public benefits, including residents who get government help to buy groceries through the…...
US hospitals are emerging from bankruptcy only to falter again
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (549+ words) The hospitals that emerged from the bankruptcies of Steward Health Care System and Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. were supposed to help stabilize one of the world's largest hospital landlords by restoring a battered tenant base after two years of industry…...
Insiders look under the hood at health care cost drivers in Mass.
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1030+ words) A growing shift of patients receiving care in costlier settings is contributing to the ongoing rise in health care spending. While average commercial health care spending grew by 8. 8 percent from 2022 to 2024, less than half of that jump was driven purely…...
Trump sets 100% drug tariffs on companies that haven't lowered prices
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1150+ words) The Boston Globe Trump sets 100% drug tariffs on companies that haven't lowered prices President Trump on Thursday ordered a new 100 percent tariff on imported drugs made by companies that have not agreed to lower their retail prices, the latest move…...
Dumped by insurance plans, millions of seniors scramble for health coverage
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1503+ words) At 70, landscape artist Anthony J. Petchkis lives with a host of health problems. There was the heart attack that sent him on an ambulance ride from his home in the mountains of New Hampshire to Portland, Maine, for an arterial stent....
Over 200, 000 people could lose Mass Health under coming federal changes, report says
3+ week, 2+ day ago (686+ words) More than 200, 000 Massachusetts residents could lose Mass Health coverage in 2028 because of new requirements under President Trump's signature One Big Beautiful Bill, according to a new report. Depending on the level of state intervention, the law's upcoming work requirements and…...