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Charter Oak calls to the Consumer Helpline

By Ellen Andrews | February 10, 2009

I have been receiving a lot of calls on our Consumer Helpline (1-888-873-4585) from people having trouble signing up for…

Medicaid Managed Care Council/PCCM update

By Ellen Andrews | February 9, 2009

At Friday’s Council meeting DSS announced that not only did they default HUSKY families in Anthem and traditional Medicaid to…

Ten Ways to Save Money and Improve Health Care Quality

By Ellen Andrews | February 7, 2009

For Ten Ways to Save Money that Improve Quality in CT’s Health Care – so we don’t have to cut…

Governor releases her budget proposal

By Ellen Andrews | February 4, 2009

As promised, the Governor’s state budget proposal for the next two years released today includes painful cuts. Overall, Medicaid would…

Primary Care Authority meeting

By Ellen Andrews | February 4, 2009

At today’s meeting, the Primary Care Authority accepted UConn’s report *check link * assessing CT’s primary care workforce capacity. The…

Health Policy Basics

By Ellen Andrews | February 3, 2009

We are fortunate at the CT Health Policy Project to have over a dozen work study students, interns, and volunteers…

New blog by Kevin Lembo, state Health Care Advocate

By Ellen Andrews | February 2, 2009

Check out Kevin Lembo’s new blog at http://www.healthcareadvocate-kevin.blogspot.com. Kevin is CT’s State Health Care Advocate in his day job. Fascinating…

February health policy web quiz

By Ellen Andrews | February 2, 2009

Test your knowledge of an individual insurance mandate – what it would mean for CT, the challenges, and costs. Take…

CT’s state and national legislators express concerns about forcing HUSKY families into inadequate HMOs effective today

By Ellen Andrews | February 1, 2009

Friday morning state legislators gathered for a press conference outlining their concerns that DSS plans to force 60,000 HUSKY consumers…