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Reform is hard and Econ 101 doesn’t work

By Ellen Andrews | August 25, 2016

An article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights the challenges in health reform and why the…

CSG-ERC annual meeting in Quebec: States seek relief from rising prescription drug costs

By Ellen Andrews | August 15, 2016

The rising cost of health care is hitting hard across North America, both in houses of government and at home,…

Lots of hospital quality news, CT not excelling

By Ellen Andrews | August 5, 2016

  In the last few days several sources have released hospital quality rankings and measures. The bottom line — CT’s…

Updated CT Health System Primer online

By Ellen Andrews | August 5, 2016

Our Basics of CT’s Health System has been updated for 2016. It addresses private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, the uninsured, health…

CT Health Reform Dashboard – SIM ethics problems growing, hospital mergers threaten

By Ellen Andrews | August 4, 2016

August’s CT Health Reform Dashboardupdate is again very active – and not in a good way. Thousands of working HUSKY…

August CT Health Policy Webquiz: Top salaries at CT hospitals and health systems

By Ellen Andrews | August 3, 2016

Test your knowledge of top salaries at CT’s hospitals and health systems. Take the August CT Health Policy Web Quiz.

CTHPP website down, apologies

By Ellen Andrews | August 1, 2016

Our CT Health Policy Project website has been down for an unacceptable length of time. (I know some of you…

Twenty-six advocates support DSS decision to evaluate Medicaid reform

By Ellen Andrews | July 29, 2016

Wednesday 26 independent consumer advocates wrote the Lieutenant Governor supporting DSS’s decision to evaluate outcomes after the first wave of…

OHCA hears more from community about harm from YNHH-L&M deal

By Ellen Andrews | July 28, 2016

Tuesday OHCA got another earful from community members, providers and experts as they continued the public hearing on Yale-New Haven’s…