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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title>News on Connecticut</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/topic/connecticut" rel="alternate"></link><id>http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/topic/connecticut</id><updated>2010-12-30T21:31:36Z</updated><entry><title>What Is Medical Debt Collection?</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/medical-debt-collection-4303817a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-11-05T09:42:35Z</updated><author><name>WiseGeek</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-11-05:/medical-debt-collection-4303817a/</id><summary type="html">...</summary><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Credit Services and Intermediation"></category><category term="Collection Agencies"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category></entry><entry><title>Cornhusker Kickback gets the boot in health bill</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/cornhusker-kickback-boot-health-bill-878851a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-03-18T17:30:30Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-03-18:/cornhusker-kickback-boot-health-bill-878851a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Nebraska's Cornhusker Kickback gets the boot, while TN, ND make hay in revised health bill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bye bye, Cornhusker Kickback. Hello, special treatment for &lt;a title="Tennessee" href="/topic/Tennessee" &gt;Tennessee&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="North Dakota" href="/topic/North+Dakota" &gt;North Dakota&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Democrats unveiling revisions Thursday to their health care overhaul bill decided to kill the extra $100 million in &lt;a title="Medicaid" href="/topic/Medicaid" &gt;Medicaid&lt;/a&gt; funds...</summary><category term="Personal Finance"></category><category term="Consumer Credit and Debt"></category><category term="Student Loans"></category><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Social Policy"></category><category term="Health Care Policy"></category><category term="U.S. Politics"></category><category term="World Politics"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="Hurricane Katrina"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="The White House"></category><category term="Christopher Dodd"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Florida"></category><category term="Louisiana"></category><category term="Minnesota"></category><category term="Nebraska"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Arizona"></category><category term="Montana"></category><category term="Massachusetts"></category><category term="Tennessee"></category><category term="South Dakota"></category><category term="Wyoming"></category><category term="North Dakota"></category><category term="Hawaii"></category><category term="Delaware"></category><category term="Vermont"></category><category term="Maine"></category><category term="Barack Obama"></category><category term="Bank of North Dakota"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Ben Nelson"></category><category term="David Axelrod"></category><category term="Robert Gibbs"></category><category term="Kent Conrad"></category><category term="Bart Gordon"></category><category term="York (Pennsylvania)"></category><category term="Max Baucus"></category><category term="Mary Landrieu"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Emily Phelps"></category></entry><entry><title>Senate roll vote on GOP effort to restore cuts</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/senate-roll-vote-gop-effort-restore-cuts-766147a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-04-16T08:39:36Z</updated><author><name>AP Features</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-04-16:/senate-roll-vote-gop-effort-restore-cuts-766147a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 57-41 roll call Friday by which the Senate turned back a Republican effort to restore $120 billion in cuts to &lt;a title="Medicare Advantage Plan" href="/topic/Medicare+Advantage+Plan" &gt;Medicare Advantage&lt;/a&gt;, the private insurance plans within &lt;a title="Medicare" href="/topic/Medicare" &gt;Medicare&lt;/a&gt; that provides seniors with better benefits than the traditional program.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A "yes" vote is a vote to the .&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voting yes were 2 &lt;a title="U.S. Democratic Party" href="/topic/U.S.+De...</summary><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Alabama"></category><category term="Ohio"></category><category term="Oklahoma"></category><category term="Medicare"></category><category term="Florida"></category><category term="North Carolina"></category><category term="Texas"></category><category term="New Jersey"></category><category term="Indiana"></category><category term="Iowa"></category><category term="Kansas"></category><category term="Michigan"></category><category term="Minnesota"></category><category term="Nebraska"></category><category term="Wisconsin"></category><category term="New Hampshire"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Colorado"></category><category term="Arizona"></category><category term="Alaska"></category><category term="Idaho"></category><category term="Montana"></category><category term="Tennessee"></category><category term="Utah"></category><category term="New Mexico"></category><category term="South Dakota"></category><category term="Wyoming"></category><category term="North Dakota"></category><category term="Hawaii"></category><category term="Nevada"></category><category term="South Carolina"></category><category term="West Virginia"></category><category term="Rhode Island"></category><category term="Maine"></category><category term="John McCain"></category><category term="U.S. Democratic Party"></category><category term="U.S. Republican Party"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Medicare Advantage Plan"></category></entry><entry><title>States slash health care programs in budget crisis</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/states-slash-health-care-programs-budget-crisis-612531a" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-06-12T09:06:28Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-06-12:/states-slash-health-care-programs-budget-crisis-612531a/</id><summary type="html">&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Billions in federal stimulus not enough to keep states from cutting health care programs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aurice Barlow knows what happens when someone can't afford dental care.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"I see people walking the streets with toothaches, teeth hanging out of their mouths," said the former nurse's aide. At least 30 percent of the people in this city of 124,500 are impoverished.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Nobody cares," she says.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barlow is worried she'll now become one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Washington is p...</summary><category term="Politics"></category><category term="Political Policy"></category><category term="Domestic Policy"></category><category term="Economic Policy"></category><category term="Public Finance"></category><category term="Federal Budget"></category><category term="Government Spending"></category><category term="Health Care Issues"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Kentucky"></category><category term="Oklahoma"></category><category term="Washington, DC"></category><category term="Medicaid"></category><category term="Washington"></category><category term="Illinois"></category><category term="Iowa"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Nevada"></category><category term="Oklahoma City"></category><category term="New Orleans"></category><category term="South Carolina"></category><category term="Maryland"></category><category term="Columbia (South Carolina)"></category><category term="Columbus (Ohio)"></category><category term="The Associated Press"></category><category term="Annapolis (Maryland)"></category><category term="Hartford (Connecticut)"></category><category term="Des Moines"></category><category term="Economic Stimulus"></category><category term="Baton Rouge"></category><category term="Reno (Nevada)"></category><category term="Carson City"></category><category term="Olympia (Washington)"></category><category term="Brian Witte"></category><category term="Christopher Wills"></category><category term="Center on Budget and Policy Priorities"></category><category term="Frankfort"></category><category term="Springfield (Illinois)"></category><category term="Bobby Jindal"></category><category term="Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation"></category><category term="Joe Biesk"></category><category term="Mike Glover"></category><category term="M. Jodi Rell"></category><category term="Brendan Riley"></category><category term="Tim Talley"></category><category term="Melinda Deslatte"></category><category term="Ohio General Assembly"></category><category term="Julie Carr Smyth"></category><category term="Jim Davenport"></category><category term="Paying for Health Care"></category><category term="Curt Woodward"></category><category term="Jonathan Knapp"></category><category term="Charter Oak Health Center"></category><category term="Louisville (Kentucky)"></category></entry><entry><title>Connecticut Stanford Basketball</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/photo/connecticut-stanford-basketball-2404258p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-30T21:31:36Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-12-30:/photo/connecticut-stanford-basketball-2404258p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Connecticut" href="/topic/Connecticut" &gt;Connecticut&lt;/a&gt; guard &lt;a title="Tiffany Hayes" href="/topic/Tiffany+Hayes" &gt;Tiffany Hayes&lt;/a&gt; (3) reacts after losing the ball to &lt;a title="Stanford University" href="/topic/Stanford+University" &gt;Stanford&lt;/a&gt; in the first half of an &lt;a title="National Collegiate Athletic Association" href="/topic/National+Collegiate+Athletic+Association" &gt;NCAA&lt;/a&gt; college basketball game in Stanford, &lt;a title="California" href="/topic/California" &gt;Calif.&lt;/a&gt;, Thu...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="College Basketball"></category><category term="College Athletics"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="California"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Stanford University"></category><category term="National Collegiate Athletic Association"></category><category term="Tiffany Hayes"></category></entry><entry><title>Connecticut Pacific Basketball</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/photo/connecticut-pacific-basketball-2403654p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-29T11:02:53Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-12-29:/photo/connecticut-pacific-basketball-2403654p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Connecticut" href="/topic/Connecticut" &gt;Connecticut&lt;/a&gt; guard &lt;a title="Tiffany Hayes" href="/topic/Tiffany+Hayes" &gt;Tiffany Hayes&lt;/a&gt;, top, shoots over Pacific guard &lt;a title="Erica McKenzie" href="/topic/Erica+McKenzie" &gt;Erica McKenzie&lt;/a&gt; during the first half of an &lt;a title="National Collegiate Athletic Association" href="/topic/National+Collegiate+Athletic+Association" &gt;NCAA&lt;/a&gt; college basketball game in &lt;a title="Stockton (California)" href="/topic/Stockton+(California)" &gt;Stockto...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="College Basketball"></category><category term="College Athletics"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="National Collegiate Athletic Association"></category><category term="Jose Sanchez"></category><category term="Tiffany Hayes"></category><category term="Stockton (California)"></category><category term="Erica McKenzie"></category></entry><entry><title>Winter Weather</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/photo/winter-weather-2402736p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-27T06:31:33Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-12-27:/photo/winter-weather-2402736p/</id><summary type="html">Plows clear the tarmac around planes during a snow storm at &lt;a title="Bradley International Airport" href="/topic/Bradley+International+Airport" &gt;Bradley International Airport&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a title="Windsor Locks" href="/topic/Windsor+Locks" &gt;Windsor Locks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Connecticut" href="/topic/Connecticut" &gt;Conn.&lt;/a&gt;, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010.  (AP Photo/&lt;a title="Jessica Hill" href="/topic/Jessica+Hill" &gt;Jessica Hill&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div id="copyright"&gt;&lt;div&gt;
        Copyright 2010&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.ap.or...</summary><category term="Weather"></category><category term="Winter Weather"></category><category term="Transportation"></category><category term="Air Travel"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Windsor Locks"></category><category term="Jessica Hill"></category><category term="Bradley International Airport"></category></entry><entry><title>Police Abuse Hispanics</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/photo/police-abuse-hispanics-2402443p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-26T12:31:22Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-12-26:/photo/police-abuse-hispanics-2402443p/</id><summary type="html">In this Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 photo, &lt;a title="Santiago Malave" href="/topic/Santiago+Malave" &gt;Santiago Malave&lt;/a&gt; poses for a photograph at his place of employment, &lt;a title="Haven Superior Court" href="/topic/Haven+Superior+Court" &gt;New Haven Superior Court&lt;/a&gt;, in &lt;a title="New Haven (Connecticut)" href="/topic/New+Haven+(Connecticut)" &gt;New Haven, Conn.&lt;/a&gt;   Malave has worked law enforcement jobs in &lt;a title="Connecticut" href="/topic/Connecticut" &gt;Connecticut&lt;/a&gt; for more than four decade...</summary><category term="Judiciary"></category><category term="Law Enforcement"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="Puerto Rico"></category><category term="Jessica Hill"></category><category term="Haven Superior Court"></category><category term="New Haven (Connecticut)"></category><category term="Santiago Malave"></category></entry><entry><title>Florida St Connecticut Basketball</title><link href="http://howtopayforhealthcare.com/photo/florida-st-connecticut-basketball-2400999p" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2010-12-21T20:01:34Z</updated><author><name>AP News</name></author><id>tag:howtopayforhealthcare.com,2010-12-21:/photo/florida-st-connecticut-basketball-2400999p/</id><summary type="html">&lt;a title="Connecticut" href="/topic/Connecticut" &gt;Connecticut&lt;/a&gt; fans celebrate their team's 93-62 win over &lt;a title="Florida State University" href="/topic/Florida+State+University" &gt;Florida State&lt;/a&gt; in an &lt;a title="National Collegiate Athletic Association" href="/topic/National+Collegiate+Athletic+Association" &gt;NCAA&lt;/a&gt; college basketball game in &lt;a title="Hartford (Connecticut)" href="/topic/Hartford+(Connecticut)" &gt;Hartford, Conn.&lt;/a&gt;, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Connecticut set an NCAA record...</summary><category term="Basketball"></category><category term="College Basketball"></category><category term="College Athletics"></category><category term="United States"></category><category term="Connecticut"></category><category term="National Collegiate Athletic Association"></category><category term="Florida State University"></category><category term="Hartford (Connecticut)"></category></entry></feed>
