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ObamaCare 411 smartphone app release Monday at LOB

By Ellen Andrews | March 31, 2013

This Monday Small Business for a Healthy CT will host a live demonstration of Obamacare411, a suite of user-friendly information…

CT nursing collaborative funded to build capacity

By Ellen Andrews | March 28, 2013

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded the CT Nursing Collaborative Action Coalition a two-year grant to prepare CT nurses…

What can Charter Oak teach the CT health insurance exchange?

By Ellen Andrews | March 27, 2013

A comparison finds lower consumer costs in the current Charter Oak plan than the Access Health CT (the CT Health Insurance…

CT individual premiums expected to rise 29% next year

By Ellen Andrews | March 27, 2013

A new analysis by the Society of Actuaries predicts that non-group health insurance premiums will rise from the current monthly…

HUSKY parents cut – costs outlined, rally planned

By Ellen Andrews | March 25, 2013

The Governor’s budget proposed cutting 37,500 working parents from Medicaid in 2014. Families affected have incomes between 133 and 185%…

Insurance Exchange web portal needs work

By Ellen Andrews | March 22, 2013

The access health CT (formerly the CT Health Insurance Exchange) web portal got a chilly reception from stakeholders at its…

Room change — Insurance exchange experts panel coming to CT

By Ellen Andrews | March 18, 2013

Tomorrow’s panel — Health Insurance Exchanges: How Connecticut Can Benefit — a panel of national and state experts sponsored by…

Small business absence in Exchange planning

By Ellen Andrews | March 16, 2013

Kevin Galvin’s blog today notes the continuing absence of a small business voice on the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board,…

Choosing Wisely grand rounds

By Ellen Andrews | March 15, 2013

Tuesday’s John Boden Symposium at Middlesex Hospital featured Michael LeFevre, MD, from UMissori-Columbia and Vice-Chair of the US Preventive Services…