A working group on healthcare organized by House Speaker and Congressional candidate Chris Donovan recommended Monday the state create a government-run insurance company and allow small businesses to join the state employee health plan. Donovan, D-Meriden, convened the Speaker’s Working Group on Small Business Health Care last year. He is running for Congress in the [...]
Zachary Janowski, investigative reporter for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, addresses the Connecticut Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society on January 18, 2012. Dr. Roger Pilon, a Cato Institute Scholar, spoke earlier in the morning about whether the individual mandate will hold up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
As part of the unionization process Gov. Dannel Malloy began last year with two executive orders, state officials are preparing to release the personal information of several thousand people who work for Connecticut’s elderly and disabled. In September, Executive Order No. 10 started the process of unionizing personal care attendants, a broad group of independent [...]
Without fanfare or announcement, Gov. Dannel Malloy has named the members of two working groups that will guide the unionization of home daycare providers and personal care attendants over the next year. The two working groups will meet Friday morning. The Personal Care Attendant Working Group will meet at 10 a.m. and the Family Child [...]
My latest post to Health Justice CT takes on income inequality and the best way to improve health: increase prosperity. If someone offers you half of pie #1 or all of pie #2, the first thing you should ask is, “How big are the pies?” I don’t know when it started, but many Americans have [...]
The Jackson Laboratory – which will receive $291 million in state subsidies for a new building on the Farmington campus of the University of Connecticut Health Center – announced Thursday a joint venture in New York City will go forward with support from the city and private funders. The New York Genome Center is a [...]
Gov. Dannel Malloy will ask the legislature to approve a $291 million incentive package for nonprofit genetic research laboratory to open in Connecticut, after a similar effort to open a lab in Florida failed. The Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Maine, does genetic research and develops mice with human diseases to be used in biomedical [...]
My latest post for Health Justice CT asks if health education is a missed opportunity. As I look back on health classes I took in elementary and junior high school, I wonder if they were a missed opportunity with too much sex and drugs, and not enough health. That was my experience, anyway. (I went [...]
Commissioner Dan Esty, Connecticut’s chief regulator of the environment and utilities, was paid by United Illuminating in 2009, the smaller of the state’s two electric utilities, according to a disclosure by his wife, former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty. In 2009, before he was Commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, United Illuminating paid [...]
The University of Connecticut Health Center is considering an exclusive agreement with union contractors on its $864 million revitalization project known as Bioscience Connecticut, despite concerns about legal challenges and the increased costs under such agreements. “We are evaluating options and a decision has not yet been made,” said health center spokesman Chris DeFrancesco. According [...]
