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March 27, 2020 • Emerging Issues, Health Equity

Translación en español le sigue. In just a few weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on the lives of all Connecticut’s families and children.  A virus with no vaccine, no treatment, and no prior human exposures to enable us to develop some individual and herd immunity, it sweeps...

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All children and families deserve better than this

February 3, 2020 • Emerging Issues, Health Equity

This op-ed was first published in the Connecticut Mirror. We are deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the revised public charge regulations. This rips the very fabric of who we are as a state and a country. All children and families —whether born in the United States o...

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Texas v. United States: healthcare for thousands in limbo as the court deliberates

October 4, 2019 • Health Equity

Texas v. United States considers the constitutionality of the individual mandate within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and whether the mandate, if deemed unconstitutional, is severable from the rest of the ACA. The 5th Circuit of Appeals should issue their decision in the coming weeks.  Impact of an...

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