The Attorney General’s settlement allowing Partners Healthcare to acquire South Shore Hospital and two North Shore community hospitals is a great and lasting disservice to the future of high quality, affordable health care in … [Read more...]
Money changers in the temples of healing
Hope you checked out the Globe's fine work -- an old story, but never too late to tell -- on the historic "gentleman's agreement" to essentially create a health care provider/insurer cartel, between Partners and Blue Cross Blue … [Read more...]
Partners’ pig-in-a-poke
You might think that if you pay the premium for the fancy downtown hospitals (under Partners HealthCare) that you'd be getting the tip-top quality you and your insurer are paying for. You'd be wrong about that. Finally, in a major … [Read more...]