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44,000 CT small businesses eligible for health insurance tax breaks
Thanks to national health reform 44,000 CT businesses are eligible for tax credits making health insurance more affordable. Starting this…
Reflections – Eric Knowles
Since becoming a summer intern at the CT Health Policy Project, I’ve earned a greater appreciation and understanding for the…
Frustrating eHealth privacy meeting
Today’s meeting of the CT Health Information Technology and Exchange Advisory Committee’s Legal and Policy Subcommittee was frustrating. I was…
eHealth privacy meeting tomorrow morning
Tomorrow morning July 20th at 8:30 – 10 am there will be a meeting of the CT Health Information Technology…
Meet Nelson Mendoza
Nelson Mendoza is a 19 year old from Houston Texas who just finished his freshman year at Yale. Nelson was…
150,000 coming into already troubled Medicaid program
Finally attention is being paid to probably the largest impact of national reform – an estimated 150,000 people in CT…
Free state employee retiree health coverage being re-considered
The CT Mirror is reporting that some members of a state panel charged with addressing underfunding of CT’s state retiree…
New report on states and quality-based purchasing
Health care consumes 17% of America’s economy and, sometime this year, government’s share of that spending will pass 50%. A…
Medicaid Managed Care Council Update
First, at Friday’s meeting the Council decided to meet in August (on Friday the 13th) – we rarely do that…