Articles about Health Insurance that may be useful to Massachusetts retirees

GIC & BCBS Meetings

December 16, 2024
Association Participates During the third week of November, both the GIC and the BCBS Labor Advisory Committee held meetings. Mass ...Read More

Medicare Premium Changes for 2025

December 16, 2024
Standard Part B Increasing By 5.9% As we accurately projected in our last (October) Voice, the 2025 standard premium ...Read More
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Ibis Health’s Partnership With MIIA Leads to Better Outcomes

December 16, 2024
Just Ask Paul! Since 2021, Mass Retirees has been reporting on the partnership between Senscio Systems and MIIA (Massachusetts Interlocal ...Read More

Association Officials Attend Roundtable Annual Conference

December 16, 2024
In addition to participating this fall in the Municipal Health Insurance Summit (see p.4) and the BCBS Fall Labor ...Read More

Need Help With Problems Sleeping: What to Consider

December 16, 2024
Prescription Sleep Medications or Medical Cannabis? Many, untold thousands of Mass Retirees members are among the 50% of older adults ...Read More

Healthcare in Massachusetts Is Too Expensive. Better Primary Care Can Help

December 2, 2024,
The following article was published by our friends at Wellpoint. December 2, 2024 The rising cost of healthcare services in ...Read More

Healthcare affordability crisis looms

November 22, 2024, ,
We have two topics to report on this week: The growing crisis that is healthcare affordability; and an update on ...Read More

New weight loss drugs raise questions of access, costs

October 18, 2024,
GLP-1 drugs are effective in treating obesity. By Boston Globe The Editorial Board Updated October 18, 2024 New, popular ...Read More

HEALTHCARE NEWS: GIC & Blue Cross

October 3, 2024
Health insurance and benefits for public retirees, both at the GIC and the local level remain a focus of the ...Read More

Blue Cross Municipal Health Insurance Summit

October 3, 2024
Blue Cross Blue Shield will be sponsoring a second Municipal Health Insurance Summit in which Mass Retirees will again be ...Read More