by Zachary Janowski | Nov 18, 2014 | Features, General, Health Care, Politics, State Budget, Transparency, Unions
House Republicans say a controversial healthcare economist behind Obamacare received at least $120,000 for his work in Connecticut. Jonathan Gruber of MIT has been in the spotlight for recently publicized video footage of him criticizing American voters for being...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 14, 2014 | Features, General, Health Care, Politics, Transparency, Unions
Remember Sustinet, Connecticut’s $1 billion-plus plan to combine Medicaid, state employee health plans and a government-run health insurer? In 2010, MIT health economist Jonathan Gruber performed modeling for the Sustinet plan. Gruber, considered an architect of...
by Andrew Parrish | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Commentary, General, Health Care, Legal/Courts, Unions
As millions anxiously awaited the Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby v Sebelius (regarding the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that all employers provide contraception coverage despite religious objections) the Justices released their decision in another case that...
by Zachary Janowski | Jun 26, 2014 | Features, General, Health Care, Higher education, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The state awarded another $10 million in stem-cell research grants Tuesday, but not a single private company benefited. Like the $80 million awarded in the previous seven years, most of the money this year went to the University of Connecticut Health Center or Yale...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 18, 2014 | Ethics, Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Access Health CT, the health-insurance exchange implementing Obamacare in Connecticut, paid a marketing firm millions in part to “engage key legislators” but contends the agreement does not violate a ban on lobbying by quasi-public state agencies. The original $7.2...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 15, 2014 | Economy, Features, General, Health Care, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Construction on the Jackson Laboratory facility in Farmington is well on its way to completion thanks in part to unique treatment of the project: the lab didn’t need any local approvals. The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine will receive a $297 million...
