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Good news for CT doctors, United to offer “insurance” that you can buy insurance in the future
CT physicians are getting some relief in their medical malpractice rates, according to today’s Hartford Courant. Most will see no…
More from the Consumer Helpline
I received a phone call on Tuesday from a Communications Officer in the Commissioners Office of the Department of Social…
PCCM advocates forced to walk out of meeting
Yesterday’s PCCM working group meeting at DSS did not go well. DSS had no agenda for the meeting which started…
From the consumer helpline
I started working with the CT Health Policy Project a few weeks ago and I’ve been familiarizing myself with the…
Charter Oak “pettiness”
To root out the sources of “negativity” about the Governor’s troubled Charter Oak program, on Friday DSS Commissioner Starkowski made…
AG, Health Care and Child Advocates call on Governor to separately re-bid HUSKY and Charter Oak contracts
In a press conference today, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, State Health Care Advocate Kevin Lembo, and State Child Advocate Jeanne…
Governor delinks HUSKY from Charter Oak, guts PCCM
Friday afternoon Governor Rell announced that she will reverse two long standing policies that jeopardized health care for over 340,000…
CT health plan comparisons
US News and World Reports has published their annual national comparison of HMOs. CT has two commercial HMOs listed in…
New law allows children to stay on their parents’ policies until age 26, but there’s a catch
A new law takes effect January 1, 2009 that allows children to stay on their parent’s health policies to age…