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Medicaid costs have surged in CT. Long-term care services among the biggest drivers.
14+ hour, 42+ min ago (577+ words) Connecticut's Medicaid spending per enrollee jumped 14% between 2023 and 2024, nearly doubling the per-person cost growth of health expenses in the state overall, according to an April 2026 report by the state Office of Health Strategy. Despite the increase, Medicaid, known as HUSKY…...
UConn Health faces $54. 3 million cost increase for 2027. What it is and mitigation plans
2+ week, 2+ day ago (446+ words) UConn Health will face a budget shortfall of $54. 3 million in fiscal year 2027 due to State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition wage increases, according to UConn Health officials. In the spring, Gov. Ned Lamont reached an agreement with SEBAC that included wage…...
Kevin Rennie: Fantasy plays ominous role in creation of new UConn hospital network
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (595+ words) How they cheered the news at Waterbury Hospital in November when UConn Health Board of Directors Chair John Driscoll declared, "We have finally reached a point where we are going to invest in people over profits. Goodbye Prospect." Two weeks…...
Kevin Rennie: The wrong person for a CT job at the wrong time
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (333+ words) On Sunday, March 1, Waterbury Hospital becomes the first of three hospitals expected to join UConn Health in the newly created $400 million UConn Health Community Network. The new entity, intended to rescue three financially distressed hospitals, will be led by UConn…...
Lamont pushes health insurance tax credits for CT small businesses
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (630+ words) Gov. Ned Lamont has got a sweet deal for Connecticut small businesses struggling to provide health insurance coverage to their employees. Lamont kicked off a Wednesday afternoon press conference with a tour of the factory at Fascia's Chocolates in Waterbury,…...
State-run insurance plans for foster kids leave some of them without doctors
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1257+ words) By Andrew Jones, KFF Health News Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came…...
Uncertainty looms over CT hospitals. Here's why, amid impending cuts, need for state deal.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1186+ words) After watching a state tax designed to boost hospitals actually siphon more than $1. 6 billion from the industry, Connecticut officials spent the past seven years trying to stem the bleeding, if not reverse the damage altogether. But now, even as the…...
Facing affordability crisis and potential economic downturn, CT leaders disagree on next steps
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1045+ words) With the state's fiscal policy table re-set by key committee votes, Gov. Ned Lamont and top legislative leaders will be negotiating during the next four weeks to finalize the $28. 8 billion annual state budget and decide how much tax relief that…...
CT looking at first budget deficit in years. It can pay it 1, 000 times over
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (897+ words) State Comptroller Sean Scanlon projected Wednesday that Gov. Ned Lamont is just a few months away from the first formal budget deficit of his administration, albeit one almost too small to measure. And the $6 million shortfall Scanlon is tracking, roughly…...
What Americans are giving up to afford ACA health insurance, according to a new poll
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (665+ words) Sometimes I don't even take my medicine," said the 48-year-old truck dispatcher in Orlando, Florida. It's so much with insurance, it's crazy." For Brown and others, those spiking costs are having real impacts on daily life. Of the 1, 117 Americans surveyed…...