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Yale Breaks Ground On New Health Building

by Melissa Bailey | Jun 30, 2008 8:04 pm | Comments (0)

“We’re excited about our new neighborhood,” said Dr. Paul Genecin, as Yale embarked on its latest campus expansion into Dixwell.

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Retirees Protest Changes to Health Benefits

by Christine Stuart | Jun 25, 2008 9:25 pm | Comments (0)

Flora Long and her husband currently pay about $4,900 a year for their health insurance, but as of July 1, they will be asked to pay $12,100 a year. As a retired executive assistant to a school principal, Long said the 251 percent increase is simply unaffordable. “It’s incredulous to take on the group that’s the most vulnerable,” Long said before rejoining the picket line of about 50 other retired city and school workers outside Hartford City Hall Wednesday.
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Fein Calls For Taking Profit Out Of Health

by Melinda Tuhus | Jun 24, 2008 2:35 pm | Comments (4)

This man wants to get rid of co-pays and deductibles for health insurance, which he calls “remarkably crude ways of controlling demand.” He has a better idea—health insurance for all in a system that allows private coverage with public funding.

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Advocates Say Charter Oak Plan Discriminates

by Christine Stuart | Jun 19, 2008 10:48 am | Comments (0)

Story here.

Say Bye-Bye, Rubber Ducky

by Melinda Tuhus | Jun 16, 2008 2:05 pm | Comments (1)

If you want your children to be healthy.

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Pooling Veto Slammed

by Paul Bass | Jun 13, 2008 6:00 pm | Comments (0)

Relying on disputed math from a desperate insurance industry, Gov. M. Jodi Rell picked the last possible moment—and the quietest news hour of the week—to veto a bill Friday that would have expanded state health-insurance pools to include more small businesses, not-for-profits, and local governments. The condemnation instantly poured in anyway.
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Janitors “Welcome” Lawmakers

by Christine Stuart | Jun 11, 2008 4:08 pm | Comments (0)

Lawmakers were welcomed back to the state Capitol Wednesday by a few dozen janitors, who may lose their medical benefits because lawmakers failed to amend the Standard Wage Law at the end of the regular session in May. Full story here.

Paid Sick Days, Revivied?

by Christine Stuart | Jun 11, 2008 9:51 am | Comments (0)

With a clothesline of onesies and the state Capitol as their backdrop the Working Families Party, Momsrising.org, and other advocates called on the General Assembly to pass the Paid Sick Day legislation Wednesday when it convenes for a one-day special session. The bill which would allow employees to earn up to 6.5 sick days per year died on the House calendar during the regular legislation session last month. Full story here.

HUSKY, A Year Later—& Beyond

by Christine Stuart | Jun 6, 2008 9:55 am | Comments (0)

Democratic lawmakers patted themselves on the back Thursday for increasing enrollment levels, doctor reimbursement rates, and income levels for the more than 320,000 low-income children and families that participate in the HUSKY health insurance program. But there were also warnings about next year, in the era of Charter Oak. Full story here.

Lawmakers Shaft Capitol Janitors

by Christine Stuart | Jun 3, 2008 11:07 am | Comments (0)

Juan Valenzuela is just one of the roughly 600 state janitors that may lose their benefits, including their medical insurance, next year. Click here for the full story.

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