CT Health Reform

ACA Medicaid expansion benefits to CT include fewer uninsured, lower ED use, access to behavioral healthcare

By Ellen Andrews | May 15, 2018

A new analysis by the CT Health Foundation outlines the “unqualified success” of CT’s HUSKY expansion. In 2010 CT was…

Calls needed to save healthcare for 13,000 working parents

By Ellen Andrews | May 7, 2018

Unless legislators act soon, 13,000 working parents will lose HUSKY coverage this coming January 1st. Sally Grossman, one of those…

State Scorecard finds CT does fairly well, but poorly in Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost

By Ellen Andrews | May 3, 2018

The latest Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard finds CT’s performance across our health system ninth among states, unchanged from last year.…

Health Policy undergrad class resources online

By Ellen Andrews | April 30, 2018

The most recent slides, assignments, and syllabus, including reading list, for an undergraduate course in health policy are online. There…

CT News Junkie: What does it take to stop repeating a bad idea?

By Ellen Andrews | April 24, 2018

Albert Einstein believed the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.…

Thirty-one independent consumer advocates share concerns with SIM’s latest push for capitation

By Ellen Andrews | April 17, 2018

Despite the historic failures of capitation in Connecticut and beyond, our state’s SIM health planning office is continuing the drumbeat…

CTNJ op-ed: Connecticut should be careful building a public insurance option through Medicaid

By Ellen Andrews | April 2, 2018

Health insurance is too expensive in Connecticut and it may get worse with troubling new federal policies. But one proposed…

Advocates launch PCMHPlusFacts.org, giving HUSKY members balanced information on the controversial new program

By Ellen Andrews | February 20, 2018

Today, independent consumer advocates launched a website, PCMHPlusFacts.org, to explain the facts about HUSKY’s experimental, new payment plan to run…

January 2018 – Connecticut drops to a C this year for health reform

By admin | January 18, 2018

Connecticut health care thought leaders lowered our state to a C grade for health reform this year, matching the lowest…