Ballot Initiative Seeks To Limit Cost Ranges For Medical Care At Mass. Hospitals

In Massachusetts, it can cost you or your insurance company two or three times more to deliver a baby at one of the big Boston teaching hospitals than at small- or medium-size facilities outside the city.

Is this a problem? Should the state try to fix it? That's what you may have to decide when you vote in the fall. WBUR's Martha Bebinger explains the issue for Morning Edition.