Less than a day before a vote on the controversial public option healthcare bill, members of the Insurance and Real Estate Committee received two documents: one a status report on the Partnership 2.0 plan, which…
Healthcare
About one hospital in five across the U.S. is for-profit. Connecticut — in keeping with regional tradition — is dominated by nonprofit hospitals. Across the country, the share of for-profit hospitals is growing, although the…
It’s complicated. That’s the best way to describe the ongoing relationship between Gov. Dannel Malloy and Connecticut’s hospitals. Malloy has significantly changed the rules of their game since he took office five years ago -…
Yesterday morning, Yankee Institute president Carol Platt Liebau was a guest on WATR-Waterbury's "Talk of the Town" with Larry Rifkin (and she'll be joining Pastor Will on WTIC tomorrow). One of the most interesting parts of…
It's the kind of information that's released on a summer Friday -- when no one's supposed to be paying attention -- for a reason. After all the self-congratulation about how well Connecticut's version of ObamaCare is "working," it's…
The hits just keep on coming for Obamacare. Despite some happy talk from Gov. Dan Malloy and others, the fact is that 27,000 Connecticut residents have seen their health insurance policies cancelled in recent weeks,…
Obamacare's failure to launch continues. Though the health care reforms have become the punchline for Saturday Night Live jokes, many of its effects are no laughing matter. [caption id="attachment_2031" align="alignright" width="403"] Initial days of health…
Originally Published in the Waterbury Republican-American on March 31, 2010 Despite the complaints about our health-insurance system, in one respect Connecticut is the envy of other states: our individual insurance market. Unfortunately, the politicization of…
Maine’s Experience Should Give Connecticut Pause in Pursuing Politicized Health Insurance Rate Approval Process SB 194 - An Act Concerning Rate Approvals For Individual Health Insurance Policies purports to be responding to real concerns about…
HARTFORD – The Connecticut version of Obamacare called SustiNet could add more than $2 billion in new annual spending to the state budget with no means to pay for it, a new study by the…