Transcript of podcast interview with Steve Grossman, candidate for Governor of Massachusetts

This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Steve Grossman, State Treasurer and Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Visit the original post to listen to the podcast and read a summary. This is part of a series of interviews with all nine candidates for Governor. The full schedule is available here. David E. Williams: This is David Williams from The Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today with Steve Grossman, Treasurer of Massachusetts and candidate for Governor. Steven Grossman: David, I appreciate your time and look forward to the conversation. Williams: Steve, does Chapter 224 represent the right approach to addressing rising healthcare costs? And if not, where does it miss the mark and what would you do differently? Grossman: It’s a solid approach to curb the rising cost of healthcare. By limiting the growth of healthcare costs to the growth of the state economy, it gives a very achievable target. There are some key things we have to remember about this: namely, that it’s going to take several years to really assess how effective it is, and how effective the various ingredients contained in it are at achieving the desired results. I look forward to seeing the mechanisms that are put in place to work and to assess them to the extent that approaches that are taken need fine-tuning. Obviously, we can deal with that down the road. I’m very much focused on not only the overall numbers relating the healthcare cost growth...
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