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New administration plans to ease bankruptcy for medical debtors

By Ellen Andrews | January 9, 2009

According to the Wall Street Journal Health Blog, President- Elect Obama’s economic agenda includes an interesting bullet point — “Reform…

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Technical difficulties

By Ellen Andrews | January 7, 2009

The CT Health Policy Project has been experiencing technical difficulties with our website and with emails. The problems have been…

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US health spending growth continues to slow

By Ellen Andrews | January 7, 2009

A new report by CMS finds that US health care spending grew only 6.1% in 2007, the slowest rate since…

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Why an individual mandate won’t work in CT

By Ellen Andrews | January 5, 2009

A new paper by the CT Health Policy Project outlines why an individual mandate, a law requiring every state resident…

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Happy New Year and You Won’t Believe This

By Ellen Andrews | January 1, 2009

Last week, the FDA approved the drug Latisse for “hypotrichosis of the eyelashes” according to the Wall Street Journal Health…

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CMS approves forcing HUSKY families into HMOs

By Ellen Andrews | December 30, 2008

In a reversal of their position in a Dec. 5th letter, CMS is now allowing DSS to force 138,000 HUSKY…

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HUSKY (waiting for news) and PCCM (more bad news) update

By Ellen Andrews | December 26, 2008

DSS has now changed the date of PCCM’s start from next Thursday to February 1st even in the two small…

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HealthFirst Authority draft report

By Ellen Andrews | December 23, 2008

The Authority’s much anticipated draft report was unveiled earlier this month. Thankfully, it does not include a recommendation for an…

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Health First Authority update

By Ellen Andrews | December 9, 2008

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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