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The American Lung Association has a new online scorecard of air quality across the US. Every county in CT gets an F for high ozone days. Litchfield and New London get C’s for particle pollution but Fairfield, Hartford and New Haven get an F on that measure as well. High levels of ozone and particle…

According to DSS at today’s Medicaid Managed Care Council, the number of dental providers participating in the CT Dental Partnership grew by 20.8% from December to June. There are now 924 dental providers at 541 locations across the state caring for HUSKY and SAGA consumers. DSS also reported that there were only 366 HUSKY appeals…

Today’s Buzz poll at the Hartford Courant website: Was Governor Rell right to veto health care bills?

It’s Too Hard to be Sick in America: Stories of Chronic Illness is new by CT’s own Jennifer Jaff, Executive Director of Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness. The book details the stories of people struggling with long term illness, including Jennifer’s own story. No statistics, no analysis and no political spinning can make the…

The latest health updates from the Eastern Region of the Council of State Governments is online.

Late today Governor Rell vetoed both the SustiNet bill, which would have created a board to develop a plan to cover CT’s uninsured , and the Health Care Partnership bill, which would have self-insured the state employee plan and allowed municipalities, small businesses and non-profits the option to buy into the plan. The Governor estimates…

Monday, July 20th at 10am in Room 1C of the Legislative Office Building eHealthConnecticut, the CT Health Policy Project and AARP-CT will hold a forum to collect consumer feedback on draft privacy policies and a universal consent form. eHealthCT is creating a pilot health information exchange for CT Medicaid members to go live this fall,…

CT Voices for Children is hiring a Senior Policy Fellow for Economic and Fiscal Analyst to work on family economic security and state/federal fiscal analysis. CT Voices is an advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the well-being of all CT’s young people and their families by advocating for strategic public investments and wise public policies.

Unfortunately there are times when there aren’t many options for affordable, comprehensive health care for callers to our Consumer Helpline. One consumer caller, a man in his early 50s is looking into early retirement because of a disability. He is gathering information about his options and his main concern is finding health care for himself…

Test your knowledge of cigarette smoking in CT. Take the July CT Health Policy Webquiz.