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Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut is an independent, nonprofit organization [2] with offices in Meriden, Connecticut. [3] The foundation supports the mission of its parent organization, CHART (Connecticut Health Advancement and Research Trust). As of 2008, the foundation had assets of approximately $30 million.
Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 85 million low-income and disabled people as of 2022; [3] in 2019, the program paid for half of all U.S. births. [4]
UConn Health. UConn Health is a healthcare system and hospital, and branch of the University of Connecticut that oversees clinical care, advanced biomedical research, and academic education in medicine. The system is funded directly by the State of Connecticut and the University’s financial endowment. Its primary location, UConn John Dempsey ...
SustiNet is a Connecticut health care plan passed into law in July 2009. [1] Its goal was to provide affordable health care coverage to 98% of Connecticut residents by 2014. [1] The name SustiNet derives from the motto of the State of Connecticut: "Qui transtulit sustinet." (Latin: " [He] Who Transplanted [Still] Sustains").
It is jointly managed and financed by the federal government and the states. More than 70 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a related benefit. Medicaid mainly covers children, pregnant women, some parents of poor kids, people with disabilities and elderly nursing home patients.
Softening the eligibility requirements for Medicaid was a central goal of the ACA, forming a two-pronged policy along with subsidized private insurance via health insurance marketplaces to expand health insurance coverage in the U.S. The Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA allowed states to lower the income requirements for Medicaid ...
Medicaid service non-profits in Connecticut. In Connecticut, the state Department of Social Services contracted with three for-profit companies and one non-profit company for Medicaid services. Each organization refused to respond to Connecticut open records requests for information about how much they were paying doctors under the plans. The ...
The Association for Community Affiliated Plans ( ACAP) is a national trade association representing 80 nonprofit health plans. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ACAP advocates on behalf of its community-affiliated member health plans operating throughout the United States. ACAP's advocacy work focuses on representing publicly sponsored ...