CT Health Reform
Webinar: National Health Reform and What it Means for CT
The video and slides from today’s webinar with Rep. Joe Courtney, Congressman from CT’s 2nd district, are posted at http://www.cthealthpolicy.org/webinars.
Read MoreIf national health reform happens, how will it affect CT?
Passage of a national health reform bill appears uncertain. However under any scenario, if it happens, Medicaid will expand significantly. At least 100,000 more CT residents could become eligible for the program that has struggled in our state. The CT Health Policy Project has drafted a list of policy and design questions that need to…
Read MoreSustiNet Board meeting
Yesterday’s SustiNet Board meeting focused on federal health reforms and how SustiNet fits in. The Board heard from Stan Dorn at the Urban Institute and Sarah Dash from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s office. Both gave excellent descriptions of the House and Senate bills, where CT stands in both scenarios, and the major items still being negotiated.…
Read MorePatient-centered medical home committee meeting
Yesterday’s meeting of the SustiNet patient-centered medical home (PCMH) committee was full of energy. The discussion highlighted the tension between all the stakeholder groups who want to make sure their issue area or profession is included with the need to keep PCMHs feasible. If there are too many bells and whistles, it will be impossible…
Read MoreNew report finds CT will gain 225,000 new insured if national health reform passes
A new report by Families USA finds that in ten years CT will have 225,000 more insured residents than we do now if the Senate Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is passed. Without it, our uninsured numbers will grow by 58,000 to almost 400,000. The number of uninsured residents in our state is already…
Read MoreGovernor’s health reform council meeting
In Governor Rell’s message when she vetoed HB-6600, the SustiNet bill, she created a CT Health Care Reform Advisory Board. Her board mirrors the SustiNet Board in many ways, but largely includes people appointed by or who work for her. While the legislature over-rode her veto and the SustiNet Board has been up and running…
Read MoreSustiNet Board and Workforce Task Force meetings
Yesterday the SustiNet Board heard from eHealthConnecticut , a CT nonprofit created four years ago to develop a secure statewide health information exchange. The Board includes broad representation across the health care spectrum including physicians, hospitals, clinics, pharmacists, employers, insurers, academics, quality organizations, state agencies, policymakers and consumer advocates including the CT Health Policy Project.…
Read MoreGovernor’s Health Care Reform Advisory Board to meet
The Governor’s Health Care Reform Advisory Board will hold its first meeting November 17th from 9 to 11am; the site has not been determined. The committee was created by the Governor’s Executive Order No. 30 accompanying her veto of HB-6600, the SustiNet bill. The General Assembly subsequently overturned her veto. The SustiNet Board has been…
Read MoreCapitol Hill visit
It was an exciting time to be in DC yesterday. Our health policy class was able to attend the House press conference on the West Steps of the Capitol releasing their health reform bill that is expected to go to the floor next week. We heard from a panel of very tired health policy staffers…
Read MoreSustiNet Board meeting
The Board made progress on workplans and committees at yesterday’s meeting. They added a health disparities and equity committee, and asked for input on membership for the others. The workplans for the committees and the Board we adopted with some minor revisions. Workplans and membership lists are online. All meetings will be public and subject…
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