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In the Press - 2026
Jan 21 Analysis: To make healthcare affordable, break up OHS, CT News Junkie
Jan 5 Analysis: Why is quality always TBD? CT News Junkie
In the Press - 2025
Dec 12 CT joins compact for nurses to work across most of country, CT Insider
Dec 8 Blumenthal criticizes cap on graduate nursing degree loans, CT Insider
Nov 25 Aetna, UConn Health in high-stakes fight over reimbursement rates that could leave patients in limbo, CT Insider
Nov 20 Analysis: The Real Goal of Medicaid Work Requirements, CT News Junkie
Sept 24 Analysis: State agencies need partners to avoid the havoc that’s coming, CT News Junkie
Sept 15 Officials: Hundreds of Thousands of CT Residents Could Be Without Food Assistance Due To Federal Cutbacks, CT News Junkie
July 5 Explaining Medicaid, Connecticut's HUSKY program and what's next, New Haven Register (gifted link)
July 3 Analysis: CT is a National Leader in Fight to Control Drug Costs, CT News Junkie
June 23 Health system fees doubled at Connecticut hospitals. What do they get in return?, CT Public
June 2 Analysis: If it passes, Congressional bill would make 140,000 more people uninsured in Connecticut, CT News Junkie
May 13 Opinion: Advice From An Advocate For Connecticut’s Next OHS Commissioner, CT News Junkie
May 12 Readers Scrutinize Federal Cuts and Medical Debt, KFF Health News
May 2 There’s a new cancer center coming to CT. Here’s why and where, Hartford Courant
Apr 2 Opinion | Fact over Fiction – Community Health Centers Deliver Excellence, CT News Junkie
Mar 26 Analysis | It’s Time To End HUSKY’s ‘Value-Based’ Medicaid Program, CT News Junkie
Mar 18 Minnesota can save Medicaid dollars — if we cut out the middlemen, Minnesota Reformer
Mar 6 Analysis: CT could lose 600 jobs if Medicaid tax credits not renewed, CT Inside Investigator
Feb 17 Plan to Institute Global Budgets At Hospitals Draws Criticism, CT News Junkie
Feb 15 Targeted by Trump, Medicaid funding stirs debate as CT changes rules for hospitals, CT Post
Feb 4 Unsung Heroes’ Praises Sung, New Haven Independent
Feb 2 Analysis: Trump order jeopardizes cost effective, life-changing cure for sickle cell, CT News Junkie
Jan 8 Analysis: Hartford HealthCare Settlement with St. Francis Still Leaves Two Important Class Action Suits Active, CT News Junkie
In the Press - 2024
Dec 30 Analysis: Despite the name, value is not the solution for raging healthcare costs, CTNJ
Dec 10 Analysis: DSS Study Suggests MCOs don’t Make Sense for HUSKY, CT News Junkie
Dec 5 Prescription Drug Task Force Holds Inaugural Meeting, CT News Junkie
Nov 15 Analysis: How Trump’s Election Could Impact Healthcare in Connecticut, CT News Junkie
Nov 12 Council Takes Input About State’s Medicaid Program; Advocates Say Leave It Alone, CT News Junkie
Oct 3 Analysis: The uninsured are still with us, CT News Junkie
Sep 18 Analysis: Six common myths about healthcare and three reasons why people believe them, CT News Junkie
Aug 21 Opinion: Keep MCOs out of HUSKY health care, Vicky Nardello, CT Mirror
Aug 20 Analysis: Medicare’s drug price negotiation – Why it’s a big deal, CT News Junkie
Jul 9 Analysis: Newest Hartford Healthcare lawsuit adds a critical twist, CT News Junkie
Jul 7 Racial Equity Commission helps kill association health plans, CT Inside Investigator
Jun 20 Analysis: Why most other states use Medicaid MCOs and why CT doesn’t, CT News Junkie
Apr 16 Analysis: The Governor Could Be Making a Big Mistake, CT News Junkie
Mar 8 Analysis: What To Do About Private Equity In Healthcare?, CT News Junkie
Feb 13 Analysis: Governor’s Healthcare Budget Is A Mixed Bag, CT News Junkie
Jan 25 Analysis: Making it work: Connecting Medical And Social Care In Waterbury, CT News Junkie
Jan. 8 Analysis: Overheard in CT healthcare reform, CT News Junkie
Jan. 25 Analysis: Making it work: Connecting medical and social care in Waterbury, CT News Junkie
In the Press - 2023
Dec 1 Analysis: Healthcare defies the softening labor market, CT News Junkie
Oct 26 Op-Ed: The Charts That Scare Health Insurance Watchdogs, CT News Junkie
Sept 29 Analysis: Private Equity’s CT Hospital Mess Comes As No Surprise, CT News Junkie
Aug 15 Analysis: Bristol Hospital VP says Unfair Practices are Adding to a Nurse Shortage for Independent Hospitals, CT News Junkie
July 25 Analysis | Connecticut State Employee Health Plan Tied For Richest In US, CT News Junkie
July 17 Readers and Tweeters See Ways to Shore Up Primary Care, KFF Health News
July 7 Analysis: Limiting the Metrics We Use to Track Healthcare Quality is Cheating, CT News Junkie
July 4 CT Needs to Address Health, Cancer Care Inequities, CT by the Numbers
June 9 CT Lawmakers Pass Bill To Reduce Health Care Fees, Drug Costs, CT Examiner
June 8 Analysis: Connecticut is doing something about healthcare costs, finally, CT News Junkie
May 31 Op-Ed: This is why CT can’t lower healthcare costs, CT News Junkie
May 10 Health records for CT residents could be shared in an online database. But should it?, CT Insider
Apr 29 Analysis: How Brain Shortcuts Undermine Policymaking, CT News Junkie
Apr 14 Artificial Intelligence Can Be The Solution When It Isn’t The Problem, CT News Junkie
Mar 22 Analysis: Are Connecticut Hospitals Losing Money? It Depends, CT News Junkie
Feb 21 Lamont administration takes aim at hospital and drug costs, CT Mirror
Feb 17 Op-Ed: HUSKY coverage for immigrants is the right, and the smart, thing to do, CT News Junkie
Feb 9 OP-ED: Things To Like In The Governor’s Budget Proposal, CT News Junkie
Feb 7 A Work in Progress, Connecticut’s Health Information Exchange Offers Little Transparency, Few Guarantees on Patient Privacy, CT Examiner
Jan 25 Analysis: Life Saving Innovation at Alarming Prices, CT News Junkie
Jan 13 Connecticut Bucks the Medicaid Managed Care Trend, Managed Healthcare Executive
In the Press - 2022
Dec 15 Analysis | Good News On Health Care Costs, But It Won’t Last, CT News Junkie
Dec 6 Health insurance affordability review is good, but it’s no silver bullet, CT News Junkie
Oct 20 Analysis: Yale-New Haven layoffs but also buying 3 hospitals, and why it matters, CT News Junkie
Oct 6 Analysis: New study finds 1 in 5 households has medical debt that averages $21,687, CT News Junkie
Sept 14 Connecticut hospitals racked up nearly $1.48 billion in profit in 2021, CT Insider
Sept 13 OP-ED | Governor’s Healthcare Record Misses Opportunities, CT News Junkie
Aug 31 OP-ED | Be Careful in Making Changes When the Glass is Half Full, CT News Junkie
Aug 11 Analysis: Another CT healthcare story of wasted money and missed opportunities, CT News Junkie
July 28 Analysis | Connecticut Is 23rd In Public Health Funding, CT News Junkie
July 22 Op-Ed: Insurers’ explanations for extreme rate increases don’t make sense, CT News Junkie
July 14 Op-Ed: We need better, smarter solutions, CT News Junkie
June 10 Op-Ed: Advice from an advocate to the next OHS Director, CT News Junkie
May 17 Coalition of Health Insurers Questions Viability of Connecticut Partnership Plan, CT News Junkie
May 6 New CT law aims to cap rising healthcare prices, Register Citizen
May 5 Op-Ed: Policymakers did little to lower healthcare costs this session, CT News Junkie
Apr 21 Push for Primary Care Raises Alarm Among Mental Health and Disability Advocates, CT Examiner
Apr 7 ANALYSIS | Fact Check Shows That Raising Primary Care Spending Doesn’t Lower Total Healthcare Costs, CT News Junkie
Mar 16 Lawmakers weigh ‘anti-competitive’ practices in health care, CT Mirror
Mar 16 Connecticut Consumers Sue Major Hospital System Over Monopoly Power, Consumers for Quality Care
Mar 8 Op-Ed | Children Deserve Healthcare, Regardless of Immigration Status, CT News Junkie
Mar 4 Lamont’s health care bills draw criticism from advocates, CT Mirror
Mar 1 Connecticut Officials Tackle Drug Pricing, NBC 30 CT
Feb 23 Op-ed: Class action against Hartford Healthcare changes the landscape, CT News Junkie
Feb 16 Hartford HealthCare Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Cost, Quality Service Concerns, NBC 30 CT
Feb 15 Patients are coming after hospital monopolies, Axios
Feb 14 Op-Ed - Governor’s plan to lower healthcare costs – What’s in and what’s missing, CT News Junkie
Feb 11 OP-ED | How Much Do CT Hospitals Spend On Administration? No One Knows, CT News Junkie
Jan 13 OP-ED | Connecticut’s Healthcare Market Regulation is Broken, CT News Junkie
Jan 9 Organizations Address Health Equity Issues to Receive $1.2 Million in Grants from Connecticut Health Foundation, CT By The Numbers