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CT far behind in patient centered medical homes

By Ellen Andrews | September 24, 2009

According to NCQA, the organization that certifies medical homes among other things, CT has no practices that have been certified.…

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Danbury and Windham county lead the state in uninsured rates; large variability between CT cities and counties

By Ellen Andrews | September 23, 2009

A new report from the US Census finds that at 14% of residents uninsured, Danbury led CT municipal areas last…

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Joanne Iennaco joins CT Health Policy Project Board

By Ellen Andrews | September 22, 2009

CTHPP welcomes Joanne Iennaco to our Board of Directors. Joanne is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Nursing…

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Individual mandate may be unconstitutional

By Ellen Andrews | September 21, 2009

In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, two former Justice Dept. attorneys argue that the individual mandate included in national health…

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SustiNet celebration

By Ellen Andrews | September 18, 2009

oin the Universal Health Care Foundation of CT and all the partners who made passage of SustiNet possible for a…

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Individual mandate’s drawbacks getting national attention, finally

By Ellen Andrews | September 17, 2009

All the current health reform bills being considered in Washington include an individual mandate, requiring every resident to have health…

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SustiNet update

By Ellen Andrews | September 17, 2009

The second SustiNet Board meeting today was uneventful. Stan Dorn of the Urban Institute gave a presentation on the original…

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DSS gets an earful at PCCM subcommittee meeting

By Ellen Andrews | September 17, 2009

Today’s PCCM subcommittee meeting of the Medicaid Managed Care Council was very heated. Again the room was packed, including four…

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Challenges and promise of PCCM highlighted in today’s Waterbury Republican-American

By Ellen Andrews | September 14, 2009

An article on the front page of today’s Waterbury Republican-American describes both the potential for PCCM and the challenges in…

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