CT Health Reform

208,301 in CT enrolled in health care under ACA

By Ellen Andrews | April 18, 2014

 AccessHealthCT has worked through the queue of applications pending when enrollment into the insurance exchange closed March 31st. Between Jan…

Health Care Cabinet meeting — SIM, exchange updates

By Ellen Andrews | April 9, 2014

Yesterday’s Cabinet meeting was lively — not sure it was productive. The insurance exchange reported on a flurry of last…

CTNJ Op-Ed: How is CT’s exchange really doing?

By Ellen Andrews | April 3, 2014

CT News Junkie is a CT treasure that policymakers, advocates and other stakeholders rely on for the latest information on…

Health Insurance exchange: “customer complaints are a blessing”

By Ellen Andrews | March 12, 2014

In yesterday’s Health Care Cabinet meeting’s insurance exchange report we learned that staff there welcome complaints as windows into their…

Thoughtleaders give CT health reform a C+ again

By Ellen Andrews | March 5, 2014

In the first survey since the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansions became effective, state health thoughtleaders’ perception of our state’s…

Exchange affordability measure gutted in committee

By Ellen Andrews | February 26, 2014

In yesterday’s Insurance Committee meeting, SB-11was amended to delay CT’s insurance exchange negotiating premiums with insurers and changed “shall” to…

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…

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…

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,…