Hartford Courant -- March 29 2007

By COLIN POITRAS, Courant Staff Writer

Group Of College Students Lobbies For Coverage Reform

Dan Henderson had his first up-close encounter with Connecticut's health care crisis when he took a man's blood pressure outside Hartford city hall as part of National Primary Care Week last fall.

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By Donald E. Williams Jr., president pro tempore of the state Senate.

Real Universal Health Care For Connecticut

Hartford Courant -- March 14 2007

By LARRY DEUTSCH, community and public health pediatrician

Hartford Courant -- March 14 2007

By DIANE LEVICK, Courant Staff Writer

Legislative Committee Clears Two Differing Approaches To Health Care Reform

A bill to create a single health insurer in Connecticut - an anathema to the industry - won half-hearted approval Tuesday from a legislative panel, which also passed a reform bill the industry favors.

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An overwhelming majority of Connecticut voters – 84 percent – say they favor ensuring quality affordable health care for all residents, according to a survey released today by Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut. Almost half (46 percent) of the voters surveyed ranked fixing the state’s broken health care system as a top priority, putting it above reducing taxes, creating jobs and improving public education.

Hartford Courant -- March 4 2007

By HILARY WALDMAN, Courant Staff Writer

Emergency Rooms Across The State Are Feeling The Pain Of Too Many Patients

WILLIMANTIC -- Lynn Daros is lying on a gurney in Room 5 of the Windham Hospital emergency room, waiting to be seen. Her husband, Mike, sits beside her, bouncing their baby girl on his lap.

Hartford Courant -- February 1 2007

By COLIN POITRAS, Courant Staff Writer

Legislators Get An Earful On State's Health Care Crisis

For seven hours Wednesday, lawmakers heard the stories of deprivation, sacrifice and pain. They were the stories of Connecticut's uninsured or woefully underinsured men, women and children, the hundreds of thousands of people who are the face of the state's health care crisis.