CT Health Reform
Only State Health Care Advocate gets a vote on the health insurance exchange
Budget implementer legislation passed late yesterday included only a provision to give the State Health Care Advocate a vote on…
What is at stake for CT in Supreme Court decision?
A great Health Affairs blog by Sonya Schwartz, of the National Academy for State Health Policy, outlines the likely impact…
HHS awards HealthyCT $75.8 million loan to develop new statewide nonprofit insurer
Today HHS announced approval of HealthyCT’s CO-OP application to develop a new non-profit insurance company for CT consumers. The federal…
Insurance Exchange Board meeting notes
The CT Health Insurance Exchange Board met last week – not much happened. Small business owner, Kevin Galvin, and a…
Exchange fix bill dies in Senate
The bill to bring the CT Health Insurance Exchange into compliance with federal regulations died on the Senate calendar last…
CT small businesses struggle with health benefits
A new survey by the Universal Health Care Foundation of CT found that two out of three CT small businesses…
Bill to increase consumers on insurance exchange board passes House
Yesterday the House unanimously passed a much improved version of HB 5013. The amendment added another consumer and another small…
Insurance exchange committee updates
The first meetings of the four CT health insurance exchange advisory committees were largely uneventful and had a lot in…
Insurance exchange meeting update
The CT Health Insurance Exchange Board chose their three CEO candidates to send on to the Governor at last week’s…