Ongoing market consolidation and higher U.S. health care spending growth rates are identified as reasons for concern in the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission's 2015 cost trends report, which concludes that a low rate of growth in hospital and physician services, a well-functioning Connector Authority website, and stabilized MassHealth enrollment are reasons for optimism.
The report, which is being discussed during a downtown Boston meeting Wednesday, raised red flags around a 6.3 percent premium increase schedule to take effect in January 2016 in the state's merged insurance market.
BOSTON – They sat clustered around a coffee table Monday afternoon inside a cramped room at the Eliot Hotel in Boston, three burly veterans who only decided to tell their stories about Benghazi after coming home to a country that couldn't get its own story straight.
They don't care much for the politics surrounding the September 2012 attacks in the eastern Libya port city that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Imagine living through that event only to watch a frenzied media and opposing tribes of politicians spin the story for ratings and political gain.
