CT Health Reform
Health cost moderation predated recession; holds hope for future
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that recent “curve bending” reductions in health spending growth…
August web quiz – CT local health system performance
Test your knowledge about CT local health system performance. Take the August CT Health Policy Webquiz.
August CT Health Reform Dashboard – 13.7% progress
This month CT is again making progress toward health reform. We are now 13.7% of the way toward health reform.…
Health Insurance Exchange Board recommends standards for benefit package
Last week, the CT Health Insurance Exchange Board voted on their recommendation for the benchmark essential health benefit (EHB) package…
Exchange Navigator Committee moves into recommendations
Yesterday the CT Health Insurance Exchange Brokers, Agents, and Navigators Committee started the hard work of developing a structure and…
CT gets a Medicare Accountable Care Organization
Today CMS announced 89 new approved Medicare shared savings Accountable Care Organization applicants, including MPS ACO Physicians in CT. Prior…
The ACA and what it means for CT consumers
While we are all celebrating the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act, consumers want to know what it means…
Awaiting the Supreme Court: What Could it Mean for CT?
Policymakers and politicians, in CT and across the country, are eagerly awaiting/dreading tomorrow’s Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care…
Courant editorial critical of Senate failure to add consumers to exchange board
Yesterday’s Hartford Courant editorial voiced disappointment that the legislature and administration could not agree to add consumer and small business…