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March 19, 2010

Dodd Talks Health Care

by Christine Stuart | March 19, 2010 4:03pm

Christine Stuart photo 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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March 18, 2010

The $100 Million Question

by Christine Stuart | March 18, 2010 10:55am

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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March 15, 2010

UConn Hospital Expansion Sparks ‘Cautious Optimisim’ Amongst Stakeholders

by Christine Stuart | March 15, 2010 5:55pm

Christine Stuart photo 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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March 12, 2010

Free Dental Clinic Draws Thousand On First Day

by Christine Stuart | March 12, 2010 1:34pm

Christine Stuart photo 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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March 10, 2010

Connecticut Group Storms Insurance Lobby Conference

by Sharon Bass | March 10, 2010 5:15pm

Sharon Bass photo 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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March 9, 2010

John Dempsey Hospital Expansion Take 3

by Christine Stuart | March 9, 2010 2:30pm

Courtesy of the UConn Health Center Web site (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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Blumenthal Continues His Anthem Investigation, Calls on Feds to Help

by Christine Stuart | March 9, 2010 9:56am

Christine Stuart photo 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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March 8, 2010

Proposed Wood Furnace Ban Provokes Controversy

by Chase Carnot | March 8, 2010 5:21pm

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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Getting Long-Term Care Costs Under Control Requires Leadership

by Christine Stuart | March 8, 2010 2:38pm

Christine Stuart photo 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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Pelosi Comes To Town

by Michelle Turner | March 8, 2010 8:16am

Michelle Turner photo 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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