CT’s progress toward health reform dropped from 29.0% to
27.4% this month mainly because of SIM setbacks and state budget cuts. Both
implemented and new proposed cuts to Medicaid provider rates threaten
significant progress over the last three years. Cuts to the promising health
neighborhood project and a rush into risky shared savings models threaten
future Medicaid progress. Ethics and conflict of interest programs circle SIM.
The only bright spot is a slate of bipartisan Senate bills promoting
transparency, stabilizing hospitals, and building toward future reforms. The CT
health reform progress meter is part of the CT Health Reform Dashboard.
