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Fact checking CT’s uninsured numbers since the ACA

By Ellen Andrews | August 19, 2014

An article in today’s CT Mirror focuses on a question bouncing around CT health policy circles – what impact has…

2014 Candidate Health Care Briefing Book online

By Ellen Andrews | August 13, 2014

  The CT Health Policy Project has posted our latest Health Care Briefing Book for candidates. The site includes eighteen…

August CT Health Policy Webquiz: ACA insurance rebates in CT

By Ellen Andrews | August 11, 2014

Test your knowledge about ACA insurance rebates to CT residents. Take the August CT Health Policy Webquiz.

Half of exchange enrollees were uninsured

By Ellen Andrews | August 7, 2014

A survey released yesterday conducted by AccessHealthCT found that 53% of people who signed up for coverage through the exchange…

CSG/ERC Hopkins tour highlights patient safety, care coordination and cancer innovations

By Ellen Andrews | August 6, 2014

Yesterday’s off-site trip to Johns Hopkins from the CSG/ERC annual meeting was impressive. We heard about out of the box…

Moving video and panel on the opiod addiction epidemic, with policy options to address the problem

By Ellen Andrews | August 5, 2014

  This morning’s standing-room-only panel at CSG/ERC’s annual meeting in Baltimore on the epidemic of opiod addiction combined emotion with…

CSG/ERC panel on Medicaid innovations

By Ellen Andrews | August 4, 2014

Today’s health committee meeting at the CSG/ERC annual meeting in Baltimore featured updates from NY and CT about what is…

CA’s exchange keeps coverage affordable through negotiation

By Ellen Andrews | August 1, 2014

Premiums on California’s exchange will rise only 4.2% next year, due in large part to active purchasing. Overall health spending…

CT health reform progress dips to 28%

By Ellen Andrews | July 31, 2014

  CT lost ground in progress toward health reform according to the August CT Health Reform Dashboard. The state moved…