CT Health Reform

Pooling bill moves forward

By Ellen Andrews | February 21, 2012

Friday OPM approved the first step in allowing municipalities to join the state employee health care pool. The option was…

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Advocates disrupt insurance exchange meeting

By Ellen Andrews | February 17, 2012

Yesterday, advocates spoke out during the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board meeting to protest the lack of consumer voices on…

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Insurance public hearing to add consumers to insurance exchange board

By Ellen Andrews | February 14, 2012

Today, the Insurance and Real Estate Committee held a public hearing on HB-5013 – a very weak bill that would…

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CT Health Reform Dashboard — 10.4% progress to date

By Ellen Andrews | February 6, 2012

How is CT doing reforming our broken health system? Are we making smart choices? Are we taking advantage of opportunities?…

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February web quiz – Insurance exchange planning report

By Ellen Andrews | February 1, 2012

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

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Advocates protest at last week’s Exchange Board meeting

By Ellen Andrews | January 23, 2012

Last Thursday’s Board meeting was attended by dozens of consumer advocates protesting insurance domination of the Board’s membership and the…

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Health Reform Cabinet meeting

By Ellen Andrews | January 16, 2012

The highlight of last week’s Health Reform Cabinet was a report by Frances Padilla of the Universal Health Care Foundation…

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Small businesses ask HHS for help with CT insurance exchange

By Ellen Andrews | December 1, 2011

Small Business for a Healthy CT, a coalition of small companies, sent a letter yesterday asking HHS Secretary Sebelius to…

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Advocates file ethics complaint over health insurance exchange insurance reps

By Ellen Andrews | November 17, 2011

A group of eight organizations, led by Citizens for Economic Opportunity and including the CT Health Policy Project, have requested…

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