CT Health Reform

October webquiz – pre-exisiting conditions

By Ellen Andrews | October 1, 2012

Test your knowledge of CT residents with pre-exisiting conditions. Take the October CT Health Policy Webquiz.

Exchange Board approves Essential Health Benefits standard – false choice between benefits and cost

By Ellen Andrews | September 28, 2012

Yesterday the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board approved CT’s version of the Essential Health Benefit (EHB) package under the Affordable…

Join us for Consumer Conversations: the CT Health Insurance Exchange

By Ellen Andrews | September 27, 2012

January 1, 2014 every CT resident will be required to secure health coverage. The CT Health Insurance Exchange is being…

742,000 CT residents with pre-existing conditions’ access to coverage will be protected under ACA

By Ellen Andrews | August 29, 2012

New estimates from Families USA finds that 742,000 non-elderly CT residents have been diagnosed with serious conditions often linked to…

CT health reform progress up to 15.2%

By Ellen Andrews | August 24, 2012

CT made impressive progress toward health reform in August. We moved from 13.7% of the way to 15.2% this month.…

HHS approves CT application for more insurance exchange funding

By Ellen Andrews | August 23, 2012

Today Health and Human Services, the federal agency tasked with approving and funding state insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care…

CT health care spending growth roughly tracks our GDP

By Ellen Andrews | August 20, 2012

Is health care spending skyrocketing? Yes and no. It is true that total health spending in CT averaged 7.9% annual…

Updated CT Health Policy 101

By Ellen Andrews | August 10, 2012

Our CT Health Basics primer/training module for the CT Health Policy Project is updated. Check www.cthealthbook.org regularly for other resource…

How will 137,000 CT residents get their MLR rebate money?

By Ellen Andrews | August 9, 2012

Today’s CT Post highlights some of the confusion about the insurance rebates mandated by the Affordable Care Act from health…