Without transparency of quality data and health care costs, patients cannot make informed decisions nor be fully engaged in their own health care.
health care
Posted inHealth, Politics
Ten things Tom Foley thinks about health care
The Republican candidate for governor talks assisted suicide, the need for more mental institutions, hospital changes, Obamacare, the cost of Medicaid, and why private sector thinking could help cure the state’s health care woes.
Posted inEducation, Health, Money, Politics
Foley has lots of confidence, few details, on plans to fix CT budget
To say Tom Foley is keeping his cards close when it comes to his plans to fix state finances might be an understatement. The Greenwich businessman and Republican gubernatorial contender’s positions on key income and business taxes and public-sector wages are guarded at best.
Posted inMoney, Politics
New CT budget missing $52M to cover union retirement benefits
If Connecticut’s chief fiscal watchdog is correct, there’s a $52 million hole in the new state budget Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and majority Democratic legislators hope to enact Saturday.
Posted inEducation, Health, Money, Politics
New spending, tax breaks at risk as CT lawmakers try to close new budget gap
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his fellow Democrats in the legislature’s majority have some options to re-balance the next state budget – but none of them are nice.
Posted inEducation, Health, Money, Politics
Budget panel fills Malloy’s gap, boosts social services
One week after a $70 million hole was uncovered in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget proposal for 2014-15, the legislature’s Appropriations Committee is set to make revisions increasing spending for social services, while using surplus funds to close the budget gap.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Op-ed: Innovate with clinical care teams, not APRN independent practice
Certain aspects of straightforward mild illness and preventive care can be delivered just as well from an APRN as from a seasoned doctor. But does that warrant completely independent practice for APRNs in primary care without limitations?
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Op-ed: Portrait of a physician as an older man
I disagree with Dr. Marr’s conclusions. Physicians have not fallen from Grace: We are being pushed. But we will have a soft landing, if only we can survive the next few years.
Posted inEducation, Health, Money, Politics
Malloy offers lean $19 billion re-election year budget
Updated at 2:02 p.m.: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered a $19 billion budget Wednesday that — among many other proposals — would give tax breaks to middle-income households, consumers and towns while limiting spending growth to just under 3 percent.