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New administration plans to ease bankruptcy for medical debtors
According to the Wall Street Journal Health Blog, President- Elect Obama’s economic agenda includes an interesting bullet point — “Reform…
Read MoreTechnical difficulties
The CT Health Policy Project has been experiencing technical difficulties with our website and with emails. The problems have been…
Read MoreUS health spending growth continues to slow
A new report by CMS finds that US health care spending grew only 6.1% in 2007, the slowest rate since…
Read MoreWhy an individual mandate won’t work in CT
A new paper by the CT Health Policy Project outlines why an individual mandate, a law requiring every state resident…
Read MoreHappy New Year and You Won’t Believe This
Last week, the FDA approved the drug Latisse for “hypotrichosis of the eyelashes” according to the Wall Street Journal Health…
Read MoreCMS approves forcing HUSKY families into HMOs
In a reversal of their position in a Dec. 5th letter, CMS is now allowing DSS to force 138,000 HUSKY…
Read MoreHUSKY (waiting for news) and PCCM (more bad news) update
DSS has now changed the date of PCCM’s start from next Thursday to February 1st even in the two small…
Read MoreHealthFirst Authority draft report
The Authority’s much anticipated draft report was unveiled earlier this month. Thankfully, it does not include a recommendation for an…
Read MoreHealth First Authority update
The Authority is winding down, but there is still no draft of the plan. At Monday’s meeting, members got a…
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