CT Health Reform
Primary Care Authority meeting
At today’s meeting, the Primary Care Authority accepted UConn’s report *check link * assessing CT’s primary care workforce capacity. The…
Health 1st Authority worsens individual mandate language
In their last meeting, the Health 1st Authority announced a change to their draft report in the individual mandate language…
Universal Health Care Foundation unveils comprehensive health reform plan
The Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut released its plan for health care reform on January 13, 2009 at a…
Why an individual mandate won’t work in CT
A new paper by the CT Health Policy Project outlines why an individual mandate, a law requiring every state resident…
HealthFirst Authority draft report
The Authority’s much anticipated draft report was unveiled earlier this month. Thankfully, it does not include a recommendation for an…
Health First Authority update
The Authority is winding down, but there is still no draft of the plan. At Monday’s meeting, members got a…
Charter Oak “pettiness”
To root out the sources of “negativity” about the Governor’s troubled Charter Oak program, on Friday DSS Commissioner Starkowski made…
AG, Health Care and Child Advocates call on Governor to separately re-bid HUSKY and Charter Oak contracts
In a press conference today, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, State Health Care Advocate Kevin Lembo, and State Child Advocate Jeanne…
Governor delinks HUSKY from Charter Oak, guts PCCM
Friday afternoon Governor Rell announced that she will reverse two long standing policies that jeopardized health care for over 340,000…