In the coming weeks, the Senate Finance Committee will work with senators and representatives to merge their work into a final package. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) writes that this country has never been as close as we are today to bringing true stability ...

In July the Boston Medical Center filed suit in Massachusetts state court challenging the state's Medicaid reimbursement formula. Wendy Parmet writes that this case raises critical questions about the Massachusetts model of health care reform as well as ...

Drs. C. Jason Wang, Kathleen Conroy, and Barry Zuckerman argue that safety-net institutions should be reimbursed more per patient under any pay-for-quality scheme that is implemented.

Guidelines from the CDC recommend the use of an N95 filtering facepiece respirator. Drs. Kenneth Shine, Bonnie Rogers, and Lewis Goldfrank discuss the efficacy of personal respiratory protection measures, medical masks, and respirators.

As Democrats press to enact health care reform legislation, they have emphasized their commitment to greatly expanding coverage, slowing the growth of medical spending, and more tightly regulating private insurers, if not also creating a competing public ...

In 2006, Massachusetts enacted the country's first law mandating near-universal health care coverage,¹ and the state now has the lowest proportion of uninsured residents in the United States. The Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy ...