U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd invited reporters to his Hartford office Friday to talk about his 1,400-page bill to reform the financial system, but the conversation turned toward another major reform effort—health care.

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It remains unclear after President Barack Obama’s interview with Fox News last night if $100 million for the University of Connecticut hospital expansion is still in the national health care reform bill.

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No one showed up Monday to speak against Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposal to expand the University of Connecticut’s John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, but many remained cautious about the $352 million plan.

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They began lining up as early as 3 a.m. Friday morning and by 7:30 a.m. the line for the free dental clinic in Middletown had to be closed as the Connecticut Mission of Mercy reached its 1,000 person limit for the day.

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WASHINGTON DC—A handful of Connecticut activists joined thousands of like-minded souls in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to get in the face of the health-insurance lobby during its annual policy conference at the swanky Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

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(Updated 5 p.m.) Previous attempts have failed, but Gov. M. Jodi Rell and University of Connecticut President Michael Hogan are hoping their latest attempt to increase the size of John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington will succeed.

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Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says Anthem is getting the best bargains going to any health insurance company by virtue of a clause that requires hospitals to give it the “most favored treatment at the same time it’s raising its premiums.”

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Rep. Richard Roy, D-Milford, had to halt an exchange over a ban on outdoor wood furnaces between the president of Environment and Human Health, Inc. and Rep. Bryan Hurlburt, D-Tolland, during a public hearing before the legislature’s Environment Committee Monday.

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Reducing the number of patients in nursing homes, and increasing those served in their own homes will help shave $900 million off nearly $3 billion in the state’s long-term care costs over the next 15 years, according to a report released Monday by the Connecticut Regional Institute for the 21st Century.

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Those black Chevy Suburbans attracting curiosity on Chapel Street were transporting a visitor to town on two pieces of business: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi came to raise money for Democrats, and to raise consciousness about a last-ditch health care reform bill she’s trying to pass back in D.C.

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