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  1. Part-time workers face uncertainty as Medicaid work requirements loom, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Sep 12, 2025

    Stories about Medicaid work reporting requirements, coverage losses forecast for Connecticut residents, and a growing divide in vaccine policies across states.

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  2. One family tries to save others from a yearslong waitlist, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Aug 29, 2025

    Stories about waitlists for coverage, New England states considering health policy independence, the end of a program for workforce diversity, how Medicaid cuts could push rural hospitals toward private equity, and helping families of sick children through food.

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  3. More than half of new moms miss postpartum checkups, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Aug 08, 2025

    Stories about maternal health, new work reporting requirements, cancer screenings, childhood vaccination rates, and a rapid-response team for gender-affirming care.

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  4. New data on lead in CT water lines, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Aug 01, 2025

    Stories on lead in CT water lines, family caregivers, a cut to Medicare in the new tax law, one state backing away from community health workers, and the many names of Medicaid.

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  5. What’s in CT’s new maternal health laws, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Jul 25, 2025

    Connecticut has two new laws aimed at improving maternal health. Looming Medicaid cuts worry people with disabilities, and thousands of Access Health CT customers could face increases in their insurance costs next year. New efforts to target immigrants have stoked fears in communities. Georgia’s experiences offer a glimpse at what Medicaid work requirements could look like.

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  6. CT health centers and hospitals concerned about impacts of Medicaid cuts, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Jul 11, 2025

    A guide to Connecticut’s Medicaid program, how community health centers in Connecticut are bracing for impacts of Medicaid cuts, what challenges rural hospitals may soon face, the impact of Medicaid cuts on breast cancer patients, and how new visa restrictions are delaying foreign medical students from filling critical positions.

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  7. The federal bill and Medicaid: What happens now?

    Thursday, Jul 03, 2025

    The new federal law that passed makes a lot of big changes to health care coverage, especially Medicaid (known as HUSKY in Connecticut).  Based on what we know so far, here are the major Medicaid-related provisions, listed in order of when they take effect.

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  8. Concerns that Medicaid work requirements will strip people of health coverage, and more in this week’s roundup

    Thursday, Jul 03, 2025

    Food programs in Connecticut could be at risk, worries that some covered by Medicaid will be too sick to work and keep coverage, formerly incarcerated people face barriers to health care, new blood test could help predict preeclampsia sooner, and how a SCOTUS decisions threatens the existence of Planned Parenthood.

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  9. Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to preventable deaths, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Jun 20, 2025

    New study shows proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to preventable deaths, federal cuts could lead to financial hardships for rural hospitals, deportations hurting long term health care workforce, CDC cuts affect women with chronic diseases, how Black fathers of children with autism are coming together to support each other.

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  10. The health impacts of unreliable internet, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Mar 14, 2025

    How potential Medicaid cuts could affect Connecticut residents, how a lack of internet access impacts some Americans’ health, lessons learned five years after Connecticut’s first case of COVID-19, more Black teens experiencing mental health crises, how food insecurity can impact cardiovascular health.

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