by Zachary Janowski | Feb 14, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
The SustiNet bill up for public hearing today recommends the state combine several health of its plans into one large organization and to create a new government-run insurance plan for the general public – both as expected. However, the health care bill also changes...
by Zachary Janowski | Feb 11, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
A government-run health insurance plan for Connecticut will get a public hearing Monday. For years, liberal interest groups and union organizers have pined for such a plan, which they call a public option. Many see it as a pathway to a single-payer system that would...
by Zachary Janowski | Feb 3, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
Federal intervention in Connecticut’s process for approving insurance rates prompted Florida to reject a $1 million federal grant. “We will not be drawing down on any of those funds,” Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said Tuesday. The grant came one from...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 17, 2011 | Education, Features, General, Health Care, State Budget
Federal officials denied the University of Connecticut Health Center a $100 million grant last month, which, according to the grant application, will pose a challenge for the state’s struggling academic hospital. The application – to fund one third of a $332 million...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 29, 2010 | Features, General, Health Care, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
A state healthcare board approved recommendations Wednesday that call for the combination of state employees, prisoners and the poor into a single healthcare pool by 2012 and the expansion of that pool into a government-run insurance plan by 2014. The SustiNet Board...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 15, 2010 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Connecticut’s unpaid obligation to provide healthcare benefits for retirees could reach $40 billion by 2017 if elected officials fail to act, according to a December estimate. The state already owes $26.5 billion in healthcare benefits to current and future retirees....
