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Advocacy Tool of the Day archive online
The last Advocacy Tool of the Day will be in email boxes on Monday. The Tools provided a roadmap through…
CTNJ ANALYSIS | On Healthcare, Candidates Focused on Public Option, Medicare For All, Drug Prices
This year, Connecticut candidates running for office during a global pandemic and a harsh recession had thoughtful, well-informed answers to…
Connecticut healthcare employment coming back
Download the report Like other Connecticut workers, healthcare employment was hit hard by the pandemic in March, according to data…
Cost Cap underservice monitoring plan is very weak, puts people at risk
Download the report This week, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS) unveiled their plan to monitor for unintended consequences of…
CT Medicaid eligibility and service decisions benefit members but also the state budget
It may be counter-intuitive but, despite our high incomes, Connecticut’s generosity in eligibility and provider rates means the federal government…
CT suicide prevention planning to save lives
Like the rest of the nation, deaths by suicide were rising in Connecticut even before the pandemic, according to the…
Has MA’s cost cap worked? Should CT copy it?
Download the report The latest reports (here and here) on Massachusetts’s first-in-the-nation cost cap project raise questions about whether it…
CTNJ Op-Ed: Labels matter in healthcare, especially the misleading ones
The President was right – healthcare is complicated. There are lots of reasons, but a big one is language. What…
CT hospital uncompensated care below US average, varies between hospitals, no relation to profits
Read the report According to the state’s latest report, Connecticut hospitals provided totaled $806 million in uncompensated care last year,…