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Best kept secret: You now have free access to all your medical records

By Ellen Andrews | October 11, 2022

As of last Thursday, under new federal rules, healthcare organizations must give patients timely access to all their medical records…

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Analysis: New study finds 1 in 5 households has medical debt that averages $21,687

By Ellen Andrews | October 7, 2022

Having health insurance is no longer the protection it used to be. A pair of new studies shine a bright…

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Number of uninsured CT residents continues down despite COVID

By Ellen Andrews | October 3, 2022

Download the report The latest numbers from the US Census on US health coverage last year find that there were…

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Primary care spending boost and capitation didn’t work in private plans either

By Ellen Andrews | September 19, 2022

The big idea circulating in some CT health policy circles to control the costs of healthcare is to boost primary…

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Op-Ed: Governor’s Healthcare Record Misses Opportunities

By Ellen Andrews | September 13, 2022

Last week, the Governor and his administration held a press conference nominally to promote their efforts to lower healthcare costs,…

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Book Club: Making Numbers Count

By Ellen Andrews | September 12, 2022

If your job is to communicate policy and make sense of it, you need Making Numbers Count – The Art…

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OP-ED: Be careful in making changes when the glass is half full

By Ellen Andrews | September 7, 2022

There is good news on Connecticut health spending – and we can use it. Analysis of new data has found,…

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Good news on CT healthcare costs

By Ellen Andrews | August 28, 2022

New data from researchers at the University of Washington on state per person healthcare spending finds that between 2013 and…

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Another gift from COVID – CT life expectancy dropped 1.9 years in 2020

By Ellen Andrews | August 23, 2022

In 2020, Connecticut life expectancy at birth dropped to 78.4 years, down 1.9 years from 2019, according to a new…

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