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HMO As “Rogue Business Partner”

by Christine Stuart | Dec 20, 2006 9:09 am | Comments (0)

The governor said they should do it. The Freedom of Information said they’ve got to do it. A state judge ordered them to do it. Yet HMOs went to court to try yet again to avoid telling the public how they are spending $700 million of the public’s money on health insurance for the poor. Said State Rep. Chris Donovan (pictured): “The HMOs are acting like rogue business partners who are hiding the books.” Click here to read more.

No Endgame Seen

by Paul Bass | Dec 18, 2006 6:11 pm | Comments (0)

As pro-union clergy gathered inside a Hill church to decry a “betrayal” by an “abusive administration,” no endgame appeared in sight Monday in the renewed labor impasse at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Click here to read more.

Hill Health Aims to Reduce Heart Disease in African Americans

by Melinda Tuhus | Dec 17, 2006 10:23 pm | Comments (0)

Carleen Elliott (at right in photo) has been trying to manage her diabetes for the past 15 years, and it’s been a struggle. Since becoming a patient at Hill Health Center three years ago, she’s learned better ways to cope. Now, a new $150,000 grant that targets outreach to African Americans, who are at high risk for heart disease, stroke, and precursors to those diseases, such as diabetes, is going to help her and others even more.

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40 Stories Tall

by Christine Stuart | Dec 15, 2006 9:17 am | Comments (0)

“I am scared of losing healthcare after graduation. I have really bad asthma and need inhalers to keep me breathing well. I am worried about having to spend thousands each year alone to buy medicine.” On the eve of a climactic universal health-care battle, college stormed the state Capitol with firsthand tales of why the state needs reform. Click here to read more.

Union Election Off; Aribtrator Says Hospital Broke Law

by Paul Bass | Dec 14, 2006 10:37 am | Comments (0)

Next week’s long-awaited union election among Yale-New Haven Hospital’s 1,800 blue-collar workers is on hold after a neutral arbitrator found that the hospital engaged in “serious violations of federal law” by pressuring workers to vote no. Mayor John DeStefano, steamed, called for a campaign to remove some of Yale-New Haven’s special tax breaks.Click here to read more.

An Organizing Tool on Latino Health

by Christine Stuart | Dec 13, 2006 9:09 am | Comments (0)

A call went out Tuesday to use a new report on Latino health care as an organizing tool. Independent Capitol correspondent Christine Stuart reports; click here to read her story.

Plan B Can Now Be Plan A

by Melinda Tuhus | Dec 6, 2006 10:29 pm | Comments (0)

After a years-long battle, a two-pill combination to prevent pregnancy called Plan B is now available without a prescription to adult women. Susan Yolen, vice president of Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, held up a packet like the ones being given away at the group’s Edward Street Clinic and the 17 other PPC clinics around the state.

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Activists Gear Up To Pass Universal Health

by Paul Bass | Dec 5, 2006 10:41 am | Comments (4)

Ricardo Henriquez, a one-time journalist in Chile, worked his way up from waiter to bookstore manager after he immigrated to New Haven. Now he has a new job: organizing small business people, many of them Spanish-speaking, in the Fair Haven neighborhood to support the push to pass universal health care in Connecticut in 2007. Henriquez joined some 70 other grassroots activists for a strategy session for what promises to be the state’s number-one social-justice quest over the next six months.

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HMOs’ Secrecy Catches Up With Them

by Paul Bass | Dec 3, 2006 4:24 pm | Comments (0)

In the wake of state judge’s ruling seeking open HMOs’ books on how they’re spending $700 million of tax money meant to help the poor, and reports of widespread problems in access to doctors, state legislators are talking about possibly putting HUSKY, the government health insurance program, back in the hands of government.

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