In the swirl of national and local health reform activity, the issue of U.S. health care costs is the elephant in the room. The attempts of Congress to craft a workable (and affordable) piece of legislation are routinely foiled by an inability to find a solution to the cost containment problem. Perhaps they are not […]

Absent in the national health reform debate is an objective view of the facilitating role that health plans play within the health care system. Perhaps I am acutely aware of this, as I assume my new position at Harvard Pilgrim, but it seems to me that amid all the demonizing we pay too little attention […]

This will be my final post as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, but faithful readers of this blog need not worry about its future.  Interim CEO Bruce Bullen - who’s been the COO of Harvard Pilgrim for the past 10 years and a regular contributor to other health care blogs - will pick up the ball in my […]