Gov. Dannel P. Malloy tapped the administrator who helped implement the nation’s first health care reform law in Massachusetts to lead Connecticut’s effort to establish a health care exchange.
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State could face big revenue loss if Affordable Care Act is overturned
With the U.S. Supreme Court to rule this week or next on national health care reform, Connecticut officials are holding their collective breath, waiting to see if they must choose between cutting health care benefits for the poor and spending more state money to replace the hundreds of millions in federal dollars that will vanish.
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Senate casualty: Insurance exchange board expansion
What killed a proposal to expand the board overseeing the state’s health insurance exchange?
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Supreme Court sharply divided over individual mandate
Washington — On the second day of oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a divided Supreme Court turned its attention to whether Congress had the authority to require most Americans to have health insurance.
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Supreme Court begins arguments on landmark health care law
Washington — Inside the Supreme Court on Monday, the justices appeared to be in rare agreement on the rejection of a technical issue that could stall consideration of the constitutionality of the federal health reform law.
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“Inconvenient truths” and the politics of health reform
It’s a big couple of weeks for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The federal health reform law turns 2 on Friday, days before the U.S. Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments on a challenge to the act.
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Without federal law, some pieces of health reform could continue in Connecticut
Connecticut officials are working to create a new health insurance market that will open next year, hire a CEO to run it and prepare for an influx of new Medicaid recipients by 2014. In effect, they’re racing to implement a law that might not exist for long, at least in its current form.
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Two years after passage, Courtney still selling health reform
While many of his colleagues have stopped talking about the federal health law, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney has been on a campaign of sorts to promote it.
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Connecticut insurers wary of Obama’s contraceptive plan
In coming up with his compromise in the dispute over whether religious-affiliated employers should have to provide contraceptive coverage for their employees, President Obama failed to consider the concerns of insurance companies who would be required to provide contraceptive coverage for free.
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Advocates ask HHS to intervene in exchange board composition
A small business owner and critic of the state’s health insurance exchange board has asked a top federal health official to intervene and urge Connecticut leaders to change the board’s composition.
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Test your knowledge of Obamacare vs. Romneycare
Can you tell the difference between Obamacare and Romneycare? PolitiFact has created a quiz to test your knowledge of the two health reform plans.
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Malloy taps hospital association executive to take the lead on health reform
Gov.-elect Dan Malloy has appointed a Connecticut Hospital Association executive and former head of the Hispanic Health Council to lead state efforts to implement federal health care reform.
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Who will lead state’s health care reform?
Grappling with a $3.3 billion budget deficit and a bad economy might dominate the work of Governor-elect Dan Malloy’s administration, but his staff’s to-do list will also include implementing federal health care reform, a law that gives considerable responsibility–and work–to the states.
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Poll: Health reform critics like parts of the law
As Republican lawmakers contemplate changes to the health reform law, Americans are divided about what should happen to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a new poll conducted for the Kaiser Family Foundation in the days following last week’s elections.
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Coalition calls for Sullivan’s ouster over insurance rate rulings
A coalition that includes labor unions and community groups called for the removal of state insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan Monday, saying he “consistently rubber stamps rate increases for individual health insurance policies.”