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...]
Charlie Baker doesn’t know why costs are going up.
... and if he doesn't know, who the hell does?... I realized, once again, how hard it is for anyone to get a real handle on health care costs if there's LITTLE OR NO INFORMATION AVAILABLE ANYWHERE.... We need more information. We need … [Read more...]
Quality: We don’t have it here.
Matthew Holt does the definitive takedown of the health care jingoists that I'm too lazy to make myself: But there is a much simpler way to get the free marketeers off the topic. It's been known for a while that the U.S. is not as good at … [Read more...]