Back in April of 2007, I wrote a post entitled, “Drugs - Not The Cost Problem.”  It is still one of the most read and most commented on posts on this site - with opinions flying in both directions.  At the time, I thought it was because most people just assumed that drugs HAD to be […]

It’s no secret that some of us in the health insurance community do not agree with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ decision to require individuals to purchase prescription drug coverage as part of their health insurance benefits to meet the state’s minimum coverage requirement. And while the requirement has an effective date of 1/1/09, many people […]

Whenever most people talk about the rising cost of health care, they talk about how expensive prescription drugs are, and how they’re driving up the cost of health care. That’s only partly true. While drugs are not inexpensive - they still make up about 15 percent of HPHC’s health care spending - they are not […]