In 2006, Massachusetts became the first in the nation to mandate nearly every resident obtain a minimum level of healthcare insurance coverage.  Six years later, the nation followed suit. Today the Bay State achieved yet another first by passing S 2400, the first effort by a state to curb the projected costs of universal healthcare coverage.
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Earlier today, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold the hotly-debated Affordable Care Act as constitutional. The Court concluded that the individual health insurance mandate – central to the Act's success – falls within Congress' power to 'lay and collect taxes.'

Yet another annual gathering of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has drawn to a close, the behemoth oncology meeting that never ceases to impress first time attendees. This year, the excitement in the air about new data was palpable, particularly related to the promise that immunotherapies hold for a number of different disease areas, some of which haven’t seen much progress in recent years.

In a rare instance of bipartisan cooperation between lawmakers on the Hill, the U.S. Read More