I get asked this question a lot these days, which shouldn’t be that surprising.  Harvard Pilgrim is headquartered in Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts health care reform plan is already a couple of years old.  More importantly, it has added about 440,000 people to the insured ranks (185,000 through unsubsidized private plans and another 255,000 through subsidized, Medicaid-like coverage), has maintained […]

Oh boy - what could health care and the so-called “BCS” possibly have in common?  I pondered this question as I read, watched and listened to the discussion going on across every major sports news outlet throughout the week-end about how the Bowl Championship Series is simply a bad way to pick a national champion.  This year, there are at least 10 […]

The other day, the American Hospital Association, the Blue Cross / Blue Shield Association, Premera Blue Cross and America’s Health Insurance Plans (FYI - HPHC is a member and I’m on the Board of AHIP) released a joint study on public and private payment rates.  The study was prepared by Milliman, Inc., one of the nation’s most well […]