Ellen Andrews
Op-Ed contributor at CT News Junkie
Executive Director at The Connecticut Health Policy Project
Articles
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6 days ago |
ctnewsjunkie.com | Ellen Andrews
If the current US House budget proposal passes into law, experts estimate that 140,000 more Connecticut residents will lose health coverage. They will join the 195,000 currently uninsured state residents and Connecticut’s uninsured numbers will rise to the highest level in 20 years. Losing coverage is not good for the uninsured, both their physical and financial health.
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3 weeks ago |
ctnewsjunkie.com | Ellen Andrews
Last week, Gov. Ned Lamont announced that Deidre Gifford will be leaving the state Office of Health Strategy (OHS) next month. The agency has an ambitious mission — access to high quality, affordable healthcare for every state resident. It’s a heavy lift. Healthcare prices keep rising, the quality of care is just average, and everyone has an opinion. Expectations are high and options are few. It’s a difficult job and Dr. Gifford does it well. She will be hard to replace.
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2 months ago |
ctnewsjunkie.com | Ellen Andrews
Connecticut’s Person-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Plus program has been troubled from its start in 2017, and it’s time to go in a new direction. PCMH Plus was originally billed as a value-based system to improve the quality of Medicaid services and to control costs by allowing providers to share in any savings they could generate.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
ctnewsjunkie.com | Ellen Andrews
We are lucky to live in a time when creative scientists are developing life-changing new treatments such as gene therapies offering cures for debilitating genetic diseases. Although only a few have been approved by the FDA so far, more are in the pipeline. These breakthrough treatments are as important as penicillin or insulin were in their time. Unfortunately, they are also very expensive. Some are listed at over a million dollars.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
ctnewsjunkie.com | Ellen Andrews
CT News Junkie reports that St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center has reached a settlement with Hartford HealthCare in their lawsuit alleging unfair business practices. The court documents do not describe the terms of the “mutually acceptable resolution.”It’s good that St. Francis’s complaints as a competitor have been addressed, but the concerns of consumers and payers are still outstanding in two class action lawsuits against Hartford HealthCare.
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