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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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is notifying thousands of local people that come next month, they may need to go somewhere other than the Hospital of St. Raphael—or forgo insurance.

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Angel Morales’ father hasn’t been the same since suffering a fall from a hospital bed in 2008.

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Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was amongst the many politicians and supporters to attend a pro-choice brunch in Hartford Sunday with little more than 24-hours to go before his first debate as a candidate for U.S. Senate.

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As public furor over increased health insurance premiums boils over across the nation, a bill that would require greater regulation and transparency in the rate setting process received a public hearing at Connecticut’s Capitol Thursday.

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