CT Health Reform
$50 million health coverage opportunity for CT from national health reform
CT can access $50 million in federal funds to cover state residents with pre-existing conditions until 2014 when insurers will…
SustiNet medical home committee making progress
At last week’s SustiNet Patient-Centered Medical Home committee meeting we heard about medical home initiatives in the two programs that…
Webinar: National Health Reform and What it Means for CT
The video and slides from today’s webinar with Rep. Joe Courtney, Congressman from CT’s 2nd district, are posted at http://www.cthealthpolicy.org/webinars.
If national health reform happens, how will it affect CT?
Passage of a national health reform bill appears uncertain. However under any scenario, if it happens, Medicaid will expand significantly.…
SustiNet Board meeting
Yesterday’s SustiNet Board meeting focused on federal health reforms and how SustiNet fits in. The Board heard from Stan Dorn…
Patient-centered medical home committee meeting
Yesterday’s meeting of the SustiNet patient-centered medical home (PCMH) committee was full of energy. The discussion highlighted the tension between…
New report finds CT will gain 225,000 new insured if national health reform passes
A new report by Families USA finds that in ten years CT will have 225,000 more insured residents than we…
Governor’s health reform council meeting
In Governor Rell’s message when she vetoed HB-6600, the SustiNet bill, she created a CT Health Care Reform Advisory Board.…
SustiNet Board and Workforce Task Force meetings
Yesterday the SustiNet Board heard from eHealthConnecticut , a CT nonprofit created four years ago to develop a secure statewide…