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Kevin Rennie: The wrong person for a CT job at the wrong time
2+ mon, 1+ day 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+ week, 6+ hour 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+ week, 1+ hour 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.
3+ week, 18+ hour 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
3+ week, 3+ day 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
3+ week, 6+ day 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
1+ 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…...
CT hospitals are struggling under financial strain. "We cannot continue to do more with less
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (181+ words) Hartford Courant Facing rising costs for labor, supplies and prescription drugs and a $3 billion gap between the cost of care and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, advocates and lawmakers say that some Connecticut hospitals are in a fragile state. Further, The…...
Long-term care insurance legislation advances
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (916+ words) Calling it the start of a "conversation," legislators on the Aging Committee voted to pass a bill that would boost transparency around long-term care insurance rate increases and offer consumer protections. The amended bill would require the state Department of…...
CT hospital's long-term stability troubles senators. It comes after $54 million loss.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (999+ words) State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state's Public Health Committee, said he is concerned about the long-term well-being of Saint Francis Hospital and has asked Trinity Health's CEO Montez Carter to consider a "frank conversation with Trinity's headquarters in…...