AS THE BATTLE heats up surrounding the capital project proposals put forward by Mass General Brigham to the Department of Public Health, most of the focus over the next few […]
Paul Hattis
Posted inOpinion
Can Mass General Brigham integrate?
Perhaps its’s real this time, and not just rhetoric. I am referring, of course, to the recent media stories that Mass General Brigham, more than 25 years after its creation, […]
Posted inOpinion
Health cost benchmark up in the air right now
FROM A PURELY technical point of view, next week’s legislatively mandated annual cost growth benchmark hearing of the Health Policy Commission is a big waste of time. Why? Because under […]
Posted inOpinion
Breaking down hospital community benefits
2020 was a year like no other. COVID-19 laid bare many inequities in our Commonwealth and nation. Black and Latinx residents, many of whom are low-wage essential workers, immigrants, and […]
Posted inOpinion
Money-losing Allways is drain on Mass General Brigham
ALLWAYS HEALTH Partners, which is owned by the Massachusetts General Brigham hospital system, won approval of an 11.5 percent average increase in premium rates across its plans last week from […]
Posted inOpinion
Hospitals should partner with home health care workers
Two recent studies on the impact of COVID-19 on Massachusetts home care and home health workers and the people they care for highlight a need to build capacities for the […]
Posted inHealth Care
Getting the vaccine was no big deal
This is another in a series of conversations between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, […]
Posted inOpinion
COVID-19 fallout: Alarming trend of severe liver disease
This is another in a series of conversations between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, […]
Posted inOpinion
Don’t forget home care workers
AS WE WAIT for a final plan on who should be the first to receive limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, there is general consensus that health care personnel who are […]
Posted inOpinion
With COVID surging again, Dr. Lee returns
This is the 13th conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inOpinion
Reading between the lines at cost trend hearing
WHAT PERHAPS was the most surprising thing about this year’s Health Policy Commission cost trends hearing was how there was essentially no discussion of health care costs. Had panelist Andrew […]
Posted inOpinion
Four issues to watch on health insurance
AT LAST WEEK’S Health Policy Commission meeting, Kevin Beagan, the deputy commissioner of the Division of Insurance, shared some interesting data highlighting the state of our private health insurance markets […]
Posted inOpinion
HPC: Health care spending to fall 10% in Mass.
AT LAST WEEK’S Health Policy Commission meeting, agency staff revealed that their current estimate is that total health care spending in the state will decrease 10 percent this year. Few […]
Posted inOpinion
Juneteenth discussion at Tufts misses elephant in room
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, like many elite private colleges and universities in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and its aftermath of protests and related soul searching about racism in […]
Posted inOpinion
The black swan of our time
This is the twelfth conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
The box score on Baker’s COVID-19 response
AS WE REACH what may be fairly termed the “end of the beginning” phase of the coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts, with initial efforts now to reopen the state, it’s fair […]
Posted inOpinion
Fewer, but sicker patients in the MGH ICUs
This is the eleventh conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inOpinion
At MGH, they worry about a second surge
This is the tenth conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inOpinion
I’m seeing promising ventilator death data
This is the ninth conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inOpinion
Dr. Lee says COVID-19 patient counts down
This is the eighth conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inOpinion
Examining COVID-19 gender differences
THE STATE’S DASHBOARD of COVID-19 statistics indicates that deaths from the virus are split evenly between men and women, which is surprising given that in most other states and countries […]
Posted inOpinion
Dr. Lee: We’re busy but in good shape
This is the seventh conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inHealth Care
Surge still manageable for Dr. Lee
This is the sixth conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
Posted inHealth Care
Dr. Lee: At MGH, patients don’t die alone
This is the fifth conversation between Dr. Jarone Lee, a frontline critical care and emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Paul […]
