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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").
Health insurance exchanges were established as a part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to enable individuals to purchase health insurance in state-run marketplaces. [1] In this legislation, states could choose to establish their own health insurance exchanges; if they choose not to do so, the federal government would run ...
The lawsuit was dropped after Anthem Insurance agreed to a settlement in 1999. As a result, the state established the Connecticut Health Advancement and Research Trust. [citation needed] It is one of about 165 foundations nationwide to be created by conversions of nonprofit health corporations to for-profit entities.
Healthy Kids Connecticut is a public/private initiative Speaker Amann created in 2005 with a mission of providing healthcare access for all of Connecticut’s youth. The initiative resulted in Health First/Healthy Kids legislation passed in 2007, which will invest $300 million to improve care in the state’s HUSKY Plan for low-income children ...
The organization has done extensive campaigning for clean elections, consumer protection, universal healthcare, environmental protection, and against government corruption and war. It is Connecticut's oldest and largest non-profit public interest group, with over 20,000 citizen members within the state.
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In 2013, Western Connecticut Health Network announced plans to lay off 116 workers in response to state budget cuts. The Danbury Nurses Union voted 96% to reject a proposal to eliminate evening and weekend shift differentials in order to save the jobs of twenty-five nurses, arguing that the hospitals should cut executive pay and use the $35m ...
Through Bioscience Connecticut, a new ambulatory care center began construction in 2012 on the UConn Health campus, part of a $840 million state initiative. [13] The 300,000-square-foot outpatient ambulatory care center was supported with $203 million in private financing, [ 14 ] and will house existing services and support the work of new ...