CT Health Reform
RAND report predicts reform will save CT state government 10% on health care spending
A new economic modeling analysis by RAND for the Council of State Governments estimates that 170,000 more CT residents will…
SustiNet passes Public Health Committee
Yesterday the Public Health Committee passed the SustiNet bill on a party line vote. Even legislators who voted against the…
ACA caps on consumer spending would have helped 139,100 CT consumers this year
A report released today by Families USA finds that caps on what consumers have to pay for health care in…
Insurance exchange planning meeting
CT’s Health Insurance Exchange Planning Group held its first meeting under the new administration. Filed legislation offers two very different…
SustiNet and health insurance exchange bills heard
The Public Health, Human Services and Insurance Committees had a public hearing on the SustiNet bill and competing visions for…
State moving to ASO and PCCM for all Medicaid consumers
At a press conference today, Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman and OPM Secretary Ben Barnes announced that CT’s Medicaid program will…
Legislators looking at UConn contract for prisoners’ care for savings
An AP article in the New Haven Register reports that policymakers are looking to review and possibly open UConn’s $94…
Health care reform – CT and national
While Republicans in Washington work to repeal national health reform, Connecticut’s Public Health Committee has raised the SustiNet bill –…
The final word – HUSKY ASO cost less than HMOs – or it should have
At Friday’s Medicaid Oversight Council meeting Mercer actuaries gave us the final comparison of the costs of the HUSKY program…