Back in December, 2008, the folks at McKinsey - one of the world’s most well known consulting firms - wrote an interesting article on health care reform in the U.S.  What’s striking about it now as we all watch the debate unfold in Washington, DC is how different McKinsey’s approach is to the one being […]

No - I’m not talking about the hoo-hah in Washington, DC about who pays and how much for what.  That’s mostly a debate about health care finance reform, although people do say that finance drives care delivery.  That’s certainly true.  Change the financial incentives, and one can change the way care is provided.  But I’ve always been struck by the fact that […]

About a year ago, I wrote a post about the premiums paid by small and large businesses in Massachusetts.  I stated that - ON AVERAGE - small businesses who bought health insurance from Harvard Pilgrim paid 10 percent less than large businesses.  I did the analysis - and the blog -because I knew that many of my friends and colleagues in the […]