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 […]

I do call-in radio shows every once in a while just to hear what people want to chew the fat about.  I did one about a month ago and got asked by three different people on three different calls why Harvard Pilgrim didn’t offer a certain kind of plan.  One called about a “two person plan” […]

It’s not news that small employers have a harder time getting and holding onto health insurance coverage than larger employers. But in many cases, the rationale for this problem is predicated on the idea that small employers — because of their size — pay far more for health insurance than larger groups do. I wondered […]