CT Health Reform

What can Charter Oak teach the CT health insurance exchange?

By Ellen Andrews | March 27, 2013

A comparison finds lower consumer costs in the current Charter Oak plan than the Access Health CT (the CT Health Insurance…

CT individual premiums expected to rise 29% next year

By Ellen Andrews | March 27, 2013

A new analysis by the Society of Actuaries predicts that non-group health insurance premiums will rise from the current monthly…

Insurance Exchange web portal needs work

By Ellen Andrews | March 22, 2013

The access health CT (formerly the CT Health Insurance Exchange) web portal got a chilly reception from stakeholders at its…

Small business absence in Exchange planning

By Ellen Andrews | March 16, 2013

Kevin Galvin’s blog today notes the continuing absence of a small business voice on the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board,…

CT Insurance Exchange standard plan – it got worse

By Ellen Andrews | March 14, 2013

Unaffordable in its first version, the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board today voted unanimously to raise deductibles and copays on…

6 of 14 state exchanges actively purchasing coverage – but not CT

By Ellen Andrews | March 13, 2013

A new update on health insurance exchanges by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that six states – CA, MA, NY,…

We are 17.7% of the way to health reform’s Jan. 1 deadline

By Ellen Andrews | March 7, 2013

CT policymakers have completed 17.7% of the tasks necessary for health reform; most are due on Jan.1st of next year.…

LIA waiver denied

By Ellen Andrews | March 5, 2013

The administration’s plan to apply an asset test to families of young people in the Low Income Adults program (formerly…

Exchange prices will likely be very high

By Ellen Andrews | March 1, 2013

The Hartford Courant is reporting that premiums in the CT Health Insurance Exchange – Access Health CT – will be…