It was an inside story in the Wall Street Journal, which meant it wasn’t THAT important. But as someone who pays attention to the cost of health care generally — and the cost of Medicare and Medicaid in particular — it caught my attention. Peter Orszag, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, is making […]

Most observers of the Massachusetts health care marketplace would probably agree that the two most influential players in this space are Partners HealthCare System and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts. They are, respectively, the wealthiest and biggest health care delivery system and health insurance plan, and each can move the market in pretty much any […]

Last week, economist/columnist Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s positions on health care. Suffice it to say that Krugman sees things a bit differently than McCain. I’ll leave it up to Senator McCain to fight his own fight with Krugman over what works and doesn’t in […]