Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced a final agreement between the state and Maine-based research laboratory during a ceremonial bill signing at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington where the new genomic lab will be built.

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More than a year ago healthcare advocates were criticizing the state for increasing premiums and allowing low-income children to drop out of the state’s health insurance program, but this year the state is receiving a $5.2 million performance bonus from the Obama administration for enrolling more children in the program.

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Each time John Dempsey Hospital performs a cardiac valve surgery, the hospital receives a median payment of $82,589 from Medicare – about $23,000 more than the median paid to Danbury Hospital for the same surgical procedure.

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If the state and its unionized employees could agree on $1.6 billion in concessions, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy thinks a New Jersey-based nursing home company and workers at its nine Connecticut homes can find common ground.

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Thirty years after the first AIDS diagnosis, AIDS and HIV are still an epidemic and still there’s no cure.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget director expressed reservations Monday about opening up the state employees’ health insurance pool to municipal employees next month.

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Advocates for disabled people and the constitution crashed the first meeting Friday of an executive working group tasked with finding the best way for personal care assistants to collectively bargain.

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The community gathered at St. John’s Church in Waterbury to discuss the merger of Waterbury Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital. Texas-based LHP Hospital Group is looking to buy and merge both hospitals.

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Reduction of health care benefits, asset tests, and a potential cap on enrollment are all things health care advocates expected from Republican administrations, so they were more than concerned and a little surprised when the Malloy administration submitted a “concept paper”  that proposed all of those things.

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(Updated 4:14 p.m.) They lined up by the thousands after Tropical Storm Irene in the hopes of obtaining $200 to $1,200 in federal food assistance, but not everyone who received the benefits qualified for the program. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Sunday that about 800 of the 23,000 applicants were state employees and an unknown number of them may have committed fraud in applying and receiving federal funds.

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Tags: food stamps, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, income, state employees, fraud, Department of Social Services, Roderick Bremby