In the first month of enrollment, just 106,185 people in the U.S. signed up for private insurance plans sold through the exchanges created by the federal health law, according to figures released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Wednesday.
Feds: Fewer than half of Obamacare applicants qualify for subsidies
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After backlash, UConn’s Herbst says her ‘comments were misunderstood’
Storrs — University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst has changed her tone in her response to accusations that officials show “deliberate indifference” toward students who are sexually assaulted.
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Connecticut’s economic recovery to trail region and nation’s through 2017
Connecticut’s economic recovery will be steady yet continue to lag behind that of the Northeast and the nation over the next four years, according to a new forecast released Wednesday in cooperation with the Federal Reserve Bank. The report prepared by the New England Economic Partnership also warned that federal budget cuts and the threat […]
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UConn prof says her support of outspoken student may cost her her job
Two professors who were publicly critical of the University of Connecticut’s handling of threats against a female student earlier this year have left the university and a third says she is being driven out by her department. Heather M. Turcotte, a tenure-track professor in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, was one of three faculty members publicly critical of UConn President Susan Herbst for what they characterized as the administration’s poor response to threats of rape and violence made against a female student.
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Half of Connecticut’s public schools to receive post-Sandy Hook security upgrades
Half of the public schools in Connecticut will receive money to tighten the security at their schools. The announcement by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy comes nearly one year after 20 children and six educators were massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. “We will never be able to prevent every random act of violence, […]
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Pentagon drops purchase of Russian helicopters
The Pentagon said Wednesday it is cancelling plans to buy additional helicopters from Rosoboronexport, a Russian company supplied Syrian President Bashar Assad’s military forces with weapons. Rival Sikorsky had lobbied the Pentagon to abandon the Russian defense contractor. So did members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation, sending Defense Department Secretary Chuck Hagel letters opposing the Pentagon’s […]
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CT gets climate change – not the $ to fix it
Do folks in Connecticut think climate change is occurring? Yes they do – and big time, according to the first comprehensive state-by-state polling on climate change. Data compiled at Stanford University for 46 states (Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, Wyoming and the District of Columbia were the exceptions) show a generally high belief that there is climate change, and government should do something about it – in fact several different things – even without the cooperation of other nations.
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Connecticut is only state enrolling more in private insurance than Medicaid under Obamacare
Connecticut is the only state in the country in which more people have applied for private coverage than Medicaid through the health insurance exchange, an exchange official said Tuesday.
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Deal to save SNAP would cut funding
Washington – Federal funding for food stamps could be cut by $10 billion over 10 years under a compromise that would break a House-Senate deadlock and continue funding for a program that helps feed 430,000 across Connecticut, home to some of the nation’s richest suburbs and poorest cities. The compromise under consideration by negotiators for House […]
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Blumenthal to co-sponsor Women’s Reproductive Health Act
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and five other members of Congress will outline a legislative response Wednesday to state attempts to limit access to abortion services: the “Women’s Reproductive Health Act of 2013.” Their press conference will be streamed live 2:30 p.m. It can be viewed by clicking here.
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CT auto insurance rates are high, but the market is competitive
A report released Tuesday by the Consumer Federation of America had mixed news for Connecticut’s drivers: Since 1989, auto insurance rates in Connecticut have risen more slowly than in most other states; the average auto insurance premium in Connecticut rose 30.4 percent since 1989, but the national average was a 44.3 percent increase. Nebraska had […]
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Act now on ACA to save later
The recently published article “CT exchange chief: Obamacare focus will turn to price, value,” highlighted Kevin Counihan – CEO of Connecticut’s state-run marketplace Access Health CT – and his prediction that consumer focus will soon shift to price as those who purchase their own health insurance start to examine their options ahead of 2014 and […]
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Foley tweaks Malloy with TV ad — in NYC
He’s not an official candidate yet, but Republican Tom Foley on Monday rolled out the first television commercial of the 2014 race for governor. With a big wink to the voters and media back in Connecticut, it airs exclusively – and ever-so-briefly — on cable in New York City. To make a point about Connecticut’s […]
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UConn plan to limit transfer credits stalls
Storrs — A plan that would have limited the number of credits University of Connecticut students can take at community colleges and other colleges has been put off indefinitely.
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Teetering at the Obamacare ‘subsidy cliff’
Some Connecticut residents who buy their own health insurance fall into a sort of subsidy “cliff,” earning too much money to qualify for financial assistance as part of the federal health law but not so much that their income compensates for the higher costs of insurance.