Archive for December 2014
December CT Health Policy Webquiz: health disparities in CT
Test your knowledge about health disparities in CT. Take the December CT Health Policy Webquiz.
Read MoreProvider consolidation, facility fee forum testimony
At 2:30 today at the Legislative Office Building, the Office of State Comptroller will hold a forum and public hearing on increasing consolidation in CT’s health care system and the growing impact of facility fee charges. Invited speakers include hospitals and insurers. At 4pm the public will have a chance to comment. TheCT Health Policy…
Read MoreCT health reform progress meter down slightly to 29.8%
CT’s progress toward health reform is officially stuck. The meter moved down slightly to 29.8% this month. A very wise advocate summed up the frustration remarking that we have a pattern in CT health care reform of taking one step forward and then two steps back. Again Medicaid accounted for most of the progress including…
Read MoreCT consumer, provider groups write Congress urging CHIP reauthorization
Thirty-three consumer and provider groups across CT signed a letter to Congress urging reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Better known as HUSKY B CT’s CHIP program, now covers over 14,000 children in our state. Passed in 1997, the CHIP program must be reauthorized by Congress by October or over 14,000 CT children…
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