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Call Your Legislator

by Paul Bass | Oct 28, 2005 5:46 pm | Comments (0)

ACTION ALERT: CALL YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS TO REVERSE PREMIUMS AND REDUCE RED TAPE IN THE HUSKY PROGRAM
Please contact your state legislators and Governor Rell and tell them:

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Let ‘Em Stay Sick

by Paul Bass | Oct 27, 2005 4:18 pm | Comments (0)

An estimated 2,200 children statewide are about to lose health-care coverage because of new premiums in the state’s HUSKY program. Following is the text of a press release on the subject from the advocacy group Connecticut Voices for Children. (Click here to learn more about efforts to fight for universal health care in Connecticut.)

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In Search of a “Luxury”

by Sharon Bass | Oct 24, 2005 12:30 pm | Comments (2)

It’s hard enough for the uninsured to pay for medical care. But when it comes to their teeth, as I painfully learned … fuggedaboutit

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Protect Our Secrets, or Pay the Price?

by Dan Levine | Oct 20, 2005 9:48 am | Comments (0)

Wednesday marked yet another chapter in an ongoing Freedom of Information Commission battle, waged by health care advocates, to find out just how four HMOs spend over $600 million in taxpayer money running the HUSKY health insurance program.

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“Without Love, We Can Do Nothing”

by Melinda Tuhus | Oct 19, 2005 9:20 pm | Comments (1)

Close to 2,400 New Haveners have died of AIDS. Some of the many still living with HIV/AIDS, like Larry Ferrell (pictured), lit candles in their names and reflected on the grieving process at an annual day of prayer and remembrance at Immanuel Baptist.

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“The Critical Public Interest”

by Paul Bass | Oct 14, 2005 6:06 pm | Comments (0)

“The critical public interest in openness and transparency in state contracting—especially involving more than $600 million of state funds—compels the release of these documents, as I urged in July, 2005. There is no legal bar to disclosure.” So wrote Attorney General Richard Blumenthal Friday in a letter to the head of the state’s Department of Social Services urging her to release documents on how HMOs administer the HUSKY program. Following is the text of the letter.

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The Rell Administration Responds

by Paul Bass | Oct 13, 2005 10:09 pm | Comments (0)

Following are letters written by the Rell administration about the request by legal aid lawyers to release information about the state HUSKY program. The first letter is from Gov. Rell to Patricia A. Coker, commissioner of the state Department of Social Services, ordering to her release the information. The second letter is from Coker to state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal seeking his advice about whether she is on solid legal ground to release all the information being sought.

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The Guv Bends on FOI

by Paul Bass | Oct 13, 2005 9:55 pm | Comments (0)

On the eve of her announcement that she’s running for reelection, Gov. Jodi Rell ordered her administration to release documents sought in an ongoing dispute over the public’s right to know how HMOs are running HUSKY, the state’s health care program for struggling families. Legal aid lawyers including New Haven’s Sheldon Toubman (pictured) praised the governor but said a showdown continues over whether taxpayers will be able to find out all they need to know about how HMOs are spending $625 million in health care for the poor.

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Strike Deadline Looms

by Dan Levine | Oct 12, 2005 5:01 pm | Comments (0)

With 1,200 union workers set to strike Friday at four non-profit agencies that care mainly for people with intellectual disabilities, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Robert Genuario asked New England Health Care Union District 1199’s leadership to hold off for two weeks so he can mediate. The union agreed.

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A Letter to the Governor

by Paul Bass | Oct 11, 2005 1:59 pm | Comments (0)

Gov. Jodi Rell made a powerful statement in favor of the public knowing how hundreds of millions of its tax dollars are spent in providing health care for the poor. Yet her own appointees are defying those words and blocking the public from seeing documents about how HMOs administer the state’s HUSKY program. On Tuesday, in advance of an upcoming Freedom of Information Commission hearing, legal aid lawyers wrote to the governor asking her to put her words into action.

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