Connecticut Local Politics

From the Senate Democrats:
Senate President Donald E. Williams (D-Brooklyn), Speaker of the House Jim Amann (D-Milford), Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney (D-New Haven), Senator Edith Prague (D-Columbia), Senator Jonathan Harris (D-West Hartford), Senator Paul Doyle (D-Middletown), and fellow legislators announced a plan to increase funding for nursing homes for the purpose of raising the current […]

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Nursing homes aren’t exactly happy places, even when they aren’t a part of some sort of funding scam. Kevin Rennie had a few choice words for Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation in Canaan, a firm that, according to his most recent column, was able to hire a ritzy lobbying firm while not having enough money to […]

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Rep. Chris Shays, along with Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI), will be in Norwalk (Norwalk Hospital) today at 3:30 to announce the introduction of the American Health Benefits Programs. Billed as “the first bipartisan universal health care plan to originate in the U.S. House of Representatives” (Press Release), AHBP is “is modeled after the successful […]

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Gov. Rell has released a prospectus for her much-maligned (yet still breathing) Charter Oak Health Care plan.
Unfortunately for us, she’s released it in that most wretched of all formats: a PowerPoint presentation! I can already feel myself falling asleep just thinking about it.
However, some activist groups were apparently able to stay awake through the whole […]

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From yesterday:
The president is out of touch with the struggle of working families to afford decent health care coverage. Expanding the State Children’s Heath Insurance Program, known as SCHIP, will help insure more young people whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford ever-rising premiums.
Connecticut, for example, has plans […]

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Yay!

n a major softening of their position, the state’s Catholic bishops announced today that Catholic hospitals would comply with a new law that takes effect Monday that requires them to dispense emergency contraceptive pills to rape victims.

They’ve also finally recognized that Plan B is not abortion.

The bishops, however, said it is sufficient to require a […]

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Are you a medical professional?
Do you resent being forced to provide emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault?
Are you sick and tired of the government demanding that you offer women an adequate standard of medical care?
If you answered yes to at least one of these questions, then the Family Institute of Connecticut has […]

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Connecticut Voices for Children has compiled three reports based on census data which will probably be of interest to CTLP readers.

Connecticut and New York Lead the Nation in Income Inequality
Child Poverty in 2006: How Do Connecticut Cities Measure Up?
Education Cost Sharing (ECS) Grant Increases by District Reference Group

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Chris Dodd leads the fight to restore Habeas Corpus.

Senator Lieberman came to CT to hold a forum on health care. MLN’s tparty was in attendence and reports:

The panel itself - which Lieberman moderated, tossing around niceties and jokes in his best back-slapping politician form - was exceptional perhaps only for the complete lack of […]

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According to a report released by the Connecticut Citizen Action Group CT taxpayers have spent $11.1 billion of the $456 billion in total funding for the Iraq war.
From the press release:

The report, titled “Getting U.S. Back on Track” and authored by the USAction Education Fund, illustrates, how CT’s cost of war could have provided health […]

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The Charter Oak Health Plan, championed by Gov. Rell, is about to go out to bid:
The state, now armed with seed money, is moving ahead with the Charter Oak Health Plan proposed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell last December for uninsured adults who don’t qualify for programs serving lower-income residents.
How eagerly insurers will bite is […]

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Our own CGG speaks about the campaign of Jim Himes and some of our legislative coverage this year at a “local bloggers” panel. Thanks to Spazeboy for the video!

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Rudy Giuliani stopped at Norwalk Hospital yesterday to discuss his new health care plan. Here’s the gist:
Giuliani’s plan, which he began rolling out during campaign stops in New Hampshire this week, would include a $15,000 tax deduction that he said would motivate people to buy private health insurance which, in turn, would lower prices.
“The more […]

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Yesterday Chris Dodd unveiled a “comprehensive health care plan”. According to the campaign Dodd’s plan would:

- All Americans will have quality, affordable health coverage within four years.
- Individuals and businesses will contribute based on their ability to pay.
- Premiums will be affordable based on leveraged negotiating power, spreading risk, reduced administrative costs, and incentives […]

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Last year, John DeStefano attacked Dan Malloy’s health care plan by insisting that his “Fuzzy funding formula relies on George W. Bush to pay for his plan.” I dismissed it at the time as pre-primary posturing, and as a gratuitous Bush tie-in.
Well, as it turns out, there was something to that accusation after all. The […]

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