Whenever most people talk about the rising cost of health care, they talk about how expensive prescription drugs are, and how they’re driving up the cost of health care. That’s only partly true. While drugs are not inexpensive - they still make up about 15 percent of HPHC’s health care spending - they are not […]

Health insurance is a complicated topic. I’m in the business, and I struggle at times to understand the benefits, the coverages, the rules and the jargon. And as health care changes, the health insurance business changes right along with it.

Harvard Pilgrim’s also gone through a significant amount of change over the past few years. […]

The MA health care reform plan has gotten a lot of attention for its commitment to expanding coverage to those folks in Massachusetts who don’t have health insurance. And it’s off to a pretty good start. About 100,000 people have been enrolled in Commonwealth Care, which provides comprehensive, mostly free or heavily discounted health care […]