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Docs, Activists & Big Business Seek a Cure

by Nicole Allan | Apr 30, 2007 9:57 am | Comments (3)

“When the change is this close,” one panelist said, “it’s worth figuring out.” So a group representing activists, big business, policy-makers, doctors and activists spent Sunday trying to do just that, as they contemplated how to fix Connecticut’s broken health care system.

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“Aetna’s Profits Are Making Us Sick”

by Christine Stuart | Apr 27, 2007 9:39 am | Comments (0)

Members of the Working Families Party gathered outside Aetna’s headquarters in hospital gowns in response to Aetna’s announcement of its $434 million first-quarter profits, up 8 percent because of increased premiums, membership growth, and cost-cutting measures. Click here for a report by the Independent’s Capitol correspondent.

Senate Passes Plan B Bill 32-3

by Christine Stuart | Apr 25, 2007 9:48 pm | Comments (0)

A bill to require that rape victims be able to obtain emergency contraception at all 18 Connecticut hospitals passed the Senate late Wednesday, even after the Catholic Church withdrew its support for a compromise plan. Click here for the latest from the Independent’s Capitol correspondent (pictured).

A Dia de Salud

by Allan Appel | Apr 22, 2007 8:31 pm | Comments (0)

”Como dana la diabetes los ojos” read the signs set up on the tables decorated with yellow balloons as some 75 people came to Fair Haven Middle School for a fiesta Latina that was also a dia de salud.

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HMOs Get Time To Keep Hiding Info

by Christine Stuart | Apr 20, 2007 9:23 am | Comments (0)

A managed care subcontractor obtained a temporary injunction against the state Social Services Department, stopping the disclosure of documents related to how “medical neccesity” is determined. It was the latest round in an ongoing battle over whether the public can find out how HMOs are spending its tax dollars in running health care for poor and working-poor families. Click here for a report from the Independent’s Capitol correspondent.

Single Payer Advances

by Christine Stuart | Apr 18, 2007 5:41 pm | Comments (0)

A legislative committee voted for a statewide single-payer health care plan, while 200 union organizers and activists gathered to rebut the latest myths about the cost. Click here to read a report from the Independent’s Capitol correspondent.

Clergy Push State On Health Care

by Christine Stuart | Apr 18, 2007 9:32 am | Comments (0)

Five hundred men and women of the cloth gathered under the Dome to push for universal health care. Click here for Independent Capitol correspondent Christine Stuart’s report.

Single-Payer Pushed

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 17, 2007 9:48 am | Comments (0)

The Connecticut State Senate President, Don Williams (pictured), told a story to an area audience of a dentist in his district in northeast Connecticut who was the only dentist in the whole area to accept HUSKY, the state’s insurance plan for low-income families. When the doctor died, the children he had cared for had nowhere to go within a reasonable distance for care.

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Business Confronts Health Care Conundrum

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 13, 2007 9:26 am | Comments (0)

Is universal health care the same as “socialized medicine”? Not necessarily, Juan Figueroa (on right in photo), president of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, reassured his listeners at a meeting of mostly small business owners at the Graduate Club.

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A Plan B Compromise, & A “Misleading” Single-Payer Report

by Christine Stuart | Apr 11, 2007 10:19 am | Comments (0)

The latest from the Independent’s Capitol correspondent: Legislators reached a compromise with the Catholic Church on Plan B. (Click here to read more.) And the universal health care debate over a single-payer system may be over before it even begins, thanks to a misleading estimate issued by the Office of Fiscal Analysis. (Click here to read more.)

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