Increasing the popularity of tiered health insurance plans could help drive down total medical spending, industry leaders agreed Tuesday, but hospitals and insurers aren’t necessarily on the same page about how to do it. A special commission studying how the state might reduce provider price variation in the health care system agreed Tuesday to explore […]

Senators traveling to Minnesota this week said Tuesday they are eyeing long-term solutions rather than a quick fix to rising health care costs, noting that significant savings have not yet been achieved under a 2012 cost control law. Spending on health care in Massachusetts rose to $57.4 billion in 2015, marking the second straight year […]

STATE CAPITOL BRIEFS – TUESDAY, DEC. 13, 2016 STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ROSENBERG: LEGAL AGE FOR MARIJUANA USE SHOULD BE 25 Senate President Stanley Rosenberg wants his fellow lawmakers to consider raising the age for legal marijuana use to 25, a policy change he expects to be unpopular. Marijuana use, possession and home-growing become legal […]