Senator negotiating health-related provisions hopes for a complete health care system for older Americans and significantly reduced costs for everyone.
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Help coming for undocumented immigrants trapped in Connecticut hospitals
Gov. Ned Lamont ends cases of what some call “humanitarian incarceration.”
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New incentive programs for EV Buyers, but Connecticut’s goal still a long way off
Connecticut’s target is to have more than 125,000 electric vehicles on its roads by 2025.
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Stamford mourns death of Dudley Williams: ‘A magnificent, shining star of public service’
Dudley Williams, former Stamford Citizen of the Year and co-chair of the CT Mirror’s board, died Friday at age 65.
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How one Waterbury pastor is making a faith-based case for getting the vaccine
Connecticut ranks fifth in the percentage of the population with vaccinations. Still, racial disparities in the rollout remain.
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How people with disabilities are accessing the coronavirus vaccine
Many in the disability community are left to navigate the process on their own.
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Postal union: Sorting equipment dismantled in CT remains in pieces despite hold on service cuts
Two sorting machines in Wallingford facility have been dismantled. Each handles 35,000 pieces of mail.
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Hartford city hall opens health clinic
Across the country, health care providers, insurers, employers and politicians say they are trying to make it easier to be healthy. It’s even one of the cornerstones of the controversial Affordable Care Act, in which preventative care comes at no extra cost to the patient. Now, Hartford City Hall is joining in — with a […]
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Health insurers move ahead, with or without individual mandate
For the health policy world, the Supreme Court’s tough questioning of the individual mandate last week was a seismic event. But in Hartford, the city sometimes called the epicenter of the insurance industry, David Cordani isn’t quaking. Cordani is the CEO of Cigna, the nation’s fourth-largest health insurer. He says the insurance industry started changing […]
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Digging into public financing: From clerical errors to cash for constituents
Advocates of the state’s Citizens’ Election Fund say that the program succeeded in 2008 – keeping special interest money out of political campaigns by pumping public money in. How much money? Typical Senate candidates in contested races could have gotten as much as $85,000 for the general election. House candidates in the same situation could […]