AG says MA must do more to control healthcare costs

It looks like Massachusetts will miss a self-imposed health care spending target again this year. This warning from Attorney General Maura Healey comes just a few weeks after a state agency announced that Massachusetts failed to keep spending below 3.6 percent last year, as recommended in a 2012 law. The forecast for this year is in a report produced by Healey's office. It finds little change in problems that have been building for years: some hospitals are paid a lot more than others, patients frequent the expensive hospitals and efforts to shift the way we pay for health care aren't closing the price gaps.