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2014

• Boston Globe: Top official confident in Mass. Health Connector website, by Felice J. Freyer (Oct 9, 2014)
• Mass Live: Massachusetts should refund $106M to U.S. for improper Medicaid reimbursements, report says, by the Associated Press (Oct 1, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Cost of Health Connector’s website failure disputed, by Felice J. Freyer (Sept 17, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Connector health plans for 2015 will rise by 1.6%, by Felice J. Freyer (Sept 12, 2014)
• Boston Globe: About 400,000 in Mass. must seek new health plan, by Felice J. Freyer (Aug 14, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Mass. sticking with its health insurance website, by Felice J. Freyer (Aug 8, 2014)
• Boston Globe: New Mass. health insurance website passes key test, by Felice J. Freyer (July 10, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Mass. Health Connector website faces critical test in July, by Felice J. Freyer (June 12, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Deal reached on botched Mass. health site, by Felice J. Freyer (June 20, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Mass. scrapping flawed health insurance website, by Liz Kowalczyk and Michael Levenson (May 5, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Mass. dumps health insurance website contractor, by Liz Kowalczyk (May 17, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Health Connector chief cites vendor for site woes, by Tracy Jan (Apr 3, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Mass. gets 3-month extension to comply with health law, by Bob Salsberg, Associated Press (Feb 13, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Connector chief brought to tears describing backlog, by Michael Levenson (Feb 13, 2014)
• Boston Globe: 50,000 filings for health coverage in limbo, by Michael Levenson (Feb 12, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Insurance executive to help fix Health Connector site, by Chelsea Conaboy (Feb 6, 2014)
• Boston Globe: State knew about troubles with health site, by Chelsea Conaboy (Jan 25, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Pressure mounts to fix Mass. health site, by Chelsea Conaboy (Jan 17, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Mass. falls short on health insurance sign-ups, by Chelsea Conaboy (Jan 15, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Mass. Health Connector fraught with uncertainty, by Chelsea Conaboy (Jan 9, 2014)
• Boston Globe: Report finds billions wasted on health care, by Liz Kowalczyk (Jan 9, 2014)

2013

• Boston Globe: Problems continue to plague Mass. health marketplace, by Chelsea Conaboy (Dec 7, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Problems continue to plague Mass. health marketplace, by Chelsea Conaboy (Dec 7, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Was Mitt Romney right about US health overhaul?, by Tracy Jan (Dec 7, 2013)
• Boston Globe: Health Connector adds plans, updates options, by Robert Weisman (July 21, 2013)

Reports

• The Health Connector Autopsy Report, by Ed Lyons (Aug 26, 2014)
  • Report coverage on State Sen. Will Brownsberger's forum
• One year later, municipal health insurance reform a smashing success, by the MAPC, The Boston Foundation and the Mass Taxpayer Foundation (July 11, 2012)
• The crushing burden of municipal retiree health care liabilities, by the Mass Taxpayers Foundation (Feb 8, 2012)
• Municipal health plans: gilded benefits from a bygone era, by the Mass Taxpayers Foundation (Apr 2011)
• Retiree health care: the brick that broke municipalities' backs, by the Mass Taxpayers Foundation (Feb 2011)
• An analysis of the essential role of employers in Massachusetts health care reform, by the Mass Taxpayers Foundation (Dec 2007)