This Week at Pioneer › A False Choice on Health Care Cost Containment

Are the House and Senate giving us a false choice for how to control health care costs in Massachusetts? Aren’t there other options? Both payment reform proposals will fall short of sustainably bending the cost curve.

There is another way for the Commonwealth: patient-centered health plans. The impact would be significant in Massachusetts, where less than 3% of residents subscribe to some form of these plans, compared to 13% nationally. A recent Health Affairs($) article estimates potential savings of $75 billion a year if 50% of the country obtained health savings accounts (HSAs).

Josh Archambault, Pioneer’s director of health care policy has been writing on the issue in more depth on our blog (here, here, here, here, here) and in newspapers across the Commonwealth.