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S & S: Working, and Waiting

by Allan Appel | Feb 28, 2007 9:13 am | Comments (1)

Last week Diana McFarland, a part-time Stop & Shop worker at the Amity Road store, was waiting to hear the results of the negotiations on a new contract between her union, UFCW Local 371 and Stop & Shop. She’s still waiting, and, according to Brian Petronella, president of Local 371, the outcome at this point does not appear to be a happy one. The key sticking point is health insurance.

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Democrats Unveil Their Own Rell-Care Plan

by Christine Stuart | Feb 28, 2007 9:08 am | Comments (0)

Some state legislative Democrats introduced a new health care plan. It showed that they—unlike fellow party members pushing single-payer or full universal care,  but like the Republican governor—they can think small about a big problem. Click here for a report from Independent Capitol correspondent Christine Stuart.

To Have (Health Care) And Have Not

by Paul Bass | Feb 27, 2007 10:00 am | Comments (0)

The insured, too, often have trouble getting health care—as their advocates, like AG Dick Blumenthal (pictured), know too well. Click here for coverage of an event on that subject covered by Independent Capitol correspondent Christine Stuart.

Stop, Shop, & Insure?

by Allan Appel | Feb 21, 2007 9:14 am | Comments (3)

As Stop & Shop and its union resumed last-ditch talks to prevent a Thursday strike, the central sticking point was health care—including what kind of insurance will be offered, and when, to part-timers like Janie Eannottie (shown here hurrying across the parking lot of the Super Stop & Shop on Amity Road for her second day of training).

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Stop & Shop Doesn’t Stop Talking

by Allan Appel | Feb 19, 2007 9:39 am | Comments (5)

With the agreement between the Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. and their workers’ union to keep talking and so avert a strike until at least Thursday, everything was, as always, super at the Super S & S on Amity Road on Sunday.

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Health Care War Stories, From Diabetes to A Bakery’s Payroll

by Melinda Tuhus | Feb 14, 2007 9:45 am | Comments (0)

This woman had a story to tell. It was a story about having a potentially life-threatening illness—and the inability to get health care. Many others who attended a roundtable on Tuesday afternoon at the Stetson Library on Dixwell Avenue told their stories, too. They differed in details but had a similar theme - they are all confronting what they call a broken health care system. And they hope their stories will inform and inspire their state legislators to pass meaningful health care reform.

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“I Look Pretty Good For A Guy Who Lost Half Of His Face”

by Allan Appel | Feb 12, 2007 10:47 am | Comments (3)

Sound School graduate (2000) Eugene DeNeutte is also a U.S. Army specialist who was badly injured by an improvised explosive device. while patrolling in a Humvee in Diala Province, on his second tour in Iraq in November, 2006. After a year of painful and heroic rehabilitation, including reconstruction of a leg, elbow, and parts of his face, he received his homecoming and the award of a purple heart at a moving ceremony attended by scores of his friends from the Sound School, at the V.A. Hospital in West Haven on Sunday

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Rell’s Budget Short On Health Care

by Christine Stuart | Feb 8, 2007 8:57 am | Comments (0)

The governor pleased Democrats and left her fellow Republicans stone-faced with a budget address that dares to raise taxes, aims high on education, and aims low on health care. Click here, here, here, and here to read reports by Independent Capitol correspondent Christine Stuart.

Ready For Lyme Time

by Jason Bartlett | Feb 6, 2007 3:13 pm | Comments (1)

People are ticked off about Lyme Disease. And the state is doing nothing about it - it’s even making it harder to do something about it.
So Jason Bartlett learned when he ran for state representative on a health care platform. He got elected and, in his first few weeks in office, introduced a bill pushing for action on Lyme. The attorney general joined him. But Bartlett faces an uphill fight. He writes about that in the latest installment of his freshman legislator’s Independent diary.

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Warning: “Bipartisanship” Ahead

by Christine Stuart | Feb 6, 2007 9:24 am | Comments (0)

More than 100 residents traveled from communities across the state last week to urge state legislators to take bold action to address their health care concerns, but it became clear Monday that they may not have been listening. A bipartisan group of legislators from the Public Health Committee said progress had been made a handful of bills, but none of them would immediately help decrease the number of uninsured in the state. Click here to read more from the Independent’s Capitol correspondent.

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