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CT Mirror reports on SIM proposal – administration agenda and advocate concerns
An article yesterday in the CT Mirror describes the administration’s plans to apply for millions in federal dollars to…
CT Health Reform Progress Meter moves up to 23.7%
CT policymakers have completed 23.7% of the tasks necessary for health reform, making up for last month’s drop. Most…
Consumer advocates provide constructive input to SIM
Today a letter was sent to state SIM planners from 24 CT consumer advocates representing 21 organizations proposing an…
Quinnipiac med students start classes today
The first class of students at the new Quinnipiac University medical school started classes today. Training for the sixty…
Book Club: Naked Statistics
A new addition to the CT Health Policy Project Book Club – Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the…
Waterbury Hospital for-profit takeover community forum tonight
A community forum on Vanguard/Tenet’s planned takeover of Waterbury Hospital will be tonight at 7pm at St. John’s Episcopal…
SIM and Cabinet meeting update
Yesterday’s Health Care Cabinet meeting wasn’t very enlightening. The SIM report on consumer outreach was pretty much as expected.…
For-profit Vanguard and Yale-New Haven set to takeover ECHN
Eastern CT Health Network, including Rockville and Manchester Hospitals and their networks, has entered an agreement with for-profit Tennessee-based…
Exchange premiums up from this year, lots of variation
Our analysis of the recently announced 2014 Access Health CT standard plan premiums finds that for five typical CT households…