CT Health Reform

Super Committee and HEP, PCMH webinar videos and slides online

By Ellen Andrews | November 16, 2011

Webinar slides and videos are now posted for our last two webinars. Last week we heard from Kate McEvoy of…

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Advocate and small business concerns about CT insurance exchange

By Ellen Andrews | November 3, 2011

Together with Small Businesses for a Healthy CT, the CT Health Policy Project has been meeting with CT Health Insurance…

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Small businesses know health insurance exchange is a jobs issue

By Ellen Andrews | October 17, 2011

In a CT News Junkie opinion piece, Kevin Galvin of Small Business for a Healthy CT, wrote — When asked…

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Editorials support consumer representation on CT health insurance exchange

By Ellen Andrews | September 26, 2011

Today’s Hartford Courant and yesterday’s New Haven Register have both run editorials calling on policymakers to add consumer and small…

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Insurance Exchange Board members dominated by insurance interests, no consumer representatives

By Ellen Andrews | August 25, 2011

Members of CT Health Insurance Exchange Board were announced last evening. Despite federal law calling for a majority of members…

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Advocates urge CT Health Insurance Exchange Board members to consider consumers’ needs

By Ellen Andrews | August 22, 2011

In a letter to the newly appointed members of the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board, eleven consumer advocacy organizations offered…

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Health insurance exchange bill passes Senate

By Ellen Andrews | June 2, 2011

Yesterday the Senate passed SB 921 creating the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange. The Exchange, authorized under the Affordable Care Act…

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Health reform bill passes the House

By Ellen Andrews | May 30, 2011

The health reform bill agreed to by the administration and legislative leaders, HB 6308, passed the House Friday. The bill…

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Consumer and provider brochures on Affordable Care Act

By Ellen Andrews | May 25, 2011

CT’s Office of Health Care Advocate has published four new understandable brochures, in English and Spanish, for consumers and providers,…

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