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New CT Insurer report card online

By Ellen Andrews | October 6, 2011

The CT Insurance Dept. has published the 2011 insurer report card. The report card compares HMO and indemnity plans’ performance…

Grove health events

By Ellen Andrews | October 5, 2011

I co-work with amazing people doing exciting things at The Grove in New Haven. Among those amazing things are two…

Courant OP-ED raises concerns about Medicaid PCMH proposal

By Ellen Andrews | October 4, 2011

An Opinion piece in today’s Hartford Courant by Sheldon Toubman of New Haven legal aid outlines many problems with DSS’…

October webquiz, webinar slides and video online

By Ellen Andrews | October 3, 2011

Test your knowledge of CT’s uninsured. Take the October CT Health Policy Webquiz. Slides and video of Friday’s webinar with…

State chooses CHN to run Medicaid

By Ellen Andrews | September 30, 2011

The administration announced that they will be negotiating with Community Health Network to administer the entire state Medicaid program as…

Friday webinar: Cutting costs and improving quality through research

By Ellen Andrews | September 28, 2011

New technologies and treatments are a significant driver of skyrocketing health costs and the resulting overtreatment is harming our health.…

CTHPP brief: One in ten CT residents still uninsured last year

By Ellen Andrews | September 27, 2011

Results of two new Census surveys found that the 2011 uninsured brief. The number of uninsured in CT is higher…

Editorials support consumer representation on CT health insurance exchange

By Ellen Andrews | September 26, 2011

Today’s Hartford Courant and yesterday’s New Haven Register have both run editorials calling on policymakers to add consumer and small…

Health care jobs bubble?

By Ellen Andrews | September 26, 2011

An entertaining video from Marketplace explains the folly of policymakers who expect health care to solve their economic troubles. Oh…