CT Health Reform
If 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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Read MoreCapitol Hill visit
It was an exciting time to be in DC yesterday. Our health policy class was able to attend the House…
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…
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