The escalating health insurance cost crisis in Massachusetts has not stopped Beacon Hill lawmakers from introducing more than a dozen bills that would impose expensive new health care mandates requiring insurers to cover everything from aqua therapy and Devic’s Disease to "linguistically appropriate” mental health service. Read >

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is the nation’s #1 private health plan again on NCQA’s 2011-12 Health Insurance Ranking list Read >

NCQA Ranks Tufts Health Plan's PPO Number One in the Country HMO Plan retains its number two ranking Read >

"Attacking insurers is the health-economics equivalent of shooting the messenger. Insurers are in the business of distributing to policyholders the cost of health care; that is, the prices that are charged by hospitals, doctors, and manufacturers for their services and products" Read >

State insurance regulators have approved health premium base rate increases of under 6 percent for policies renewing in the fourth quarter that cover small businesses and individuals. Read >