CT Health Reform

Exchange active purchasing bill has a public hearing

By Ellen Andrews | February 13, 2014

The legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee has raised SB-11, An Act Concerning the Duties of the CT Health Insurance…

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New exchange numbers – good news but lots of questions

By Ellen Andrews | February 11, 2014

CT’s health insurance exchange has enrolled 121,983 people into coverage, exceeding next month’s goal. In other good news, CT is…

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CT’s Medicaid success: Access and quality are up, costs are down

By Ellen Andrews | February 6, 2014

Since 2012, when CT’s Medicaid program shifted from a capitated payment model to a self-insured model based on care coordination,…

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Exchange enrollment growing, but how many were uninsured?

By Ellen Andrews | February 5, 2014

A CT Mirror report looking underneath AccessHealthCT’s enrollment numbers finds that we don’t know how many of the 94,000 people…

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CT Health reform dashboard – progress up to 28.7%

By Ellen Andrews | February 4, 2014

As the ACA’s individual mandate, exchange coverage and dozens of other provisions became effective last month, CT has only achieved…

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February CT Health Policy Webquiz – enrollment in CT’s health insurance exchange

By Ellen Andrews | February 3, 2014

Test your knowledge of enrollment in CT’s health insurance exchange. Take the February CT Health Policy Webquiz.

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Ages of CT insurance exchange consumers raising concerns

By Ellen Andrews | January 17, 2014

Board members of Access Health CT are now raising concerns about the age profile of the health insurance exchange’s consumers.…

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CT health insurance exchange update – enrollees trend older, Anthem billing problems, and good stories of coverage

By Ellen Andrews | January 15, 2014

Customers trying to buy coverage on Access Health CT, our state’s health insurance exchange, from Anthem are having trouble paying…

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Navigators and assisters conference highlights challenges and solutions

By Ellen Andrews | January 9, 2014

Today’s AccessHealthCT conference for outreach workers focused on tools for engaging CT’s uninsured.  In addition to public officials and foundation…

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