Uncovered: How America's Health Care System Fails Young People
Few issues are more highly charged than health care, as it touches each of our lives in very personal, critically important ways. As a result, this year's public conversation around health care reform...
View ArticleThe Young Person's Guide to Health Insurance
For people in their late teens and twenties, getting health insurance can be a lot like a lottery . . .If you’re lucky, your parents have a good plan that covers you while you are in school or your...
View ArticleAnthem Approved for Health Rate Hikes As High As 47 Percent
The state's largest insurer has won approval to raise health premiums by as much as 47 percent for policies sold to individual buyers, the largest price hikes seen in Connecticut since the adoption of...
View ArticleHartford Courant: State Has A Lot At Stake In Debate on Health Care Law
Connecticut has a lot at stake in the health care debate. If the health care law is repealed, the state government and Connecticut's network of 29 hospitals are scheduled to lose upward of $250 million...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Health Care Marketplace
The creation of a new health insurance exchange offers our state the chance to build a better marketplace for health care. The exchange can help individuals and small businesses by increasing...
View ArticleNationwide Survey of New Health Exchanges Shows How to Lower Costs for Consumers
Many states are creating health exchanges to deliver better value for consumers, and other states should follow their lead, according to Making the Grade, a new report by consumer group ConnPIRG....
View ArticleMaking the Grade
This report assesses the progress that the states have made, and for the states that have begun to set up their health care exchange, evaluates them on the myriad policies and criteria that will...
View ArticleSupreme Court Upholds Health Reform
Today’s decision is good news for consumers. Insurance companies can’t go back to the days of dropping your coverage once you become ill, or denying coverage to sick children. And beginning in 2014,...
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What’s Next on Health Care Costs?
Abe ScarrDirectorContact person by emailAbe Scarr is responsible for program and organizational development, research, and legislative advocacy for ConnPIRG.Read more about Abe ScarrSaturday, November...
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