- Last week The Commonwealth Fund issued a scorecard ranking all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 13 factors relevant to the performance of the child health system in each state. Overall the highest ranking states are Iowa and Vermont, which rank 1st and 2nd respectively.
The report indicates that Connecticut provides high quality health care, but at an unnecessarily high cost, a factor on which we rank 49 out of 51. - There is still time to urge Governor Rell to sign HB 5536 into law! HCFA Coalition member Council 4 AFSCME has a wealth of background and supporting information to help you learn more about the Health Care Partnership bill, so if you need some materials to convince your friends to join you in supporting HB 5536 and calling on Governor Rell to sign it, check out the Council 4 page on the bill.
- 60% of respondents to a Courant Poll last week say that Rell should not veto HB 5536.
Health Care News Round-Up
These are some of the health care items that I think are of interest to a CT based HCFA audience:
