Excerpt: Massachusetts has the highest health costs in the country. 'The critical point is whether or not we can begin to do something about cost control,' says Dolores Mitchell, who heads a state commission that buys coverage for 310,000 government workers and their families. 'We've just got to do it.' Mitchell and nine other experts have a plan to bring Massachusetts health costs under control. They worked for nine months, under a legislative mandate, to come up with the official blueprint.... The first thing they decided -- unanimously and right off the bat -- was that the current way of paying doctors, hospitals and other medical providers has got to go.  MORE >>