CT Health Reform

Advocates protest at last week’s Exchange Board meeting

By Ellen Andrews | January 23, 2012

Last Thursday’s Board meeting was attended by dozens of consumer advocates protesting insurance domination of the Board’s membership and the…

Health Reform Cabinet meeting

By Ellen Andrews | January 16, 2012

The highlight of last week’s Health Reform Cabinet was a report by Frances Padilla of the Universal Health Care Foundation…

Small businesses ask HHS for help with CT insurance exchange

By Ellen Andrews | December 1, 2011

Small Business for a Healthy CT, a coalition of small companies, sent a letter yesterday asking HHS Secretary Sebelius to…

Advocates file ethics complaint over health insurance exchange insurance reps

By Ellen Andrews | November 17, 2011

A group of eight organizations, led by Citizens for Economic Opportunity and including the CT Health Policy Project, have requested…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…