One of the major market reforms associated with health care reform in Massachusetts was the consolidation of the individual health insurance market with the small group health insurance market.  Before reform, individuals interested in purchasing individual health insurance could do so under one set of rules - set by the Commonwealth - and small businesses interested in […]

A Payment Reform Commission in Massachusetts has been meeting for the past few months and discussing - natch - reforming the way health plans and government purchasers like Medicare and Medicaid pay for health care services.  Their primary objective is to move away from what’s commonly referred to as “fee for service” payments - in which physicians […]

I’ve posted before on how I think the Massachusetts health reform plan does and doesn’t send useful signals to the federal health care reform debate, and I’ve also posted on the public/private plan question currently before Congress.  To repeat my previous observation, I think another government run health plan - on top of Medicare and Medicaid […]