Updates matching "Connecticut"

9-11-09 This Week in Health Care Reform

Hi everyone, I'm very happy to tell you that the Legislature has passed a state budget for 2010-2011 and the Governor will allow

Action Force Delta is ACS CAN CT's new way to be alerted for calls to action on important cancer legislation! This is a Facebook Group that allows members to get in touch with one another, and send messages to other friends on Facebook! To join Action Force Delta today, e-mail

Week Ending May 16th This week was one of the most important in the health care reform debate, with the president using his bully pulpit several times to promote the issue. On Monday, May 11, he met with executives from organizations representing health insurers, drug companies, hospitals, doctors, medical device

ACS CAN Connecticut is now on Facebook! Add us to your friend list today, and be sure to always know what we're up to, what we're fighting for, and how we've been working in the community! Friendship starts here!

Today, Wednesday April 1, the Federal tobacco tax will increase $.62 bringing the total Federal tax to just over a dollar. The revenue raised from this tax icrease will fund the State Children's Health Insurance Plan or S-CHIP. The Bill was supported by the American Cancer Society and pushed forward

Sarah Shafir, State VP for Health Iniatives talks to NBC 30 about raising the tobacco tax. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3EnNdq26jI

Wednesday, February 4, 2008 Today, Governor Rell released her budget for the FY 2010-11. The budget calls for large cuts across the board and a "reshaping" of the government. Watch Gov. Rell give the Budget Address here: http://www.courant.com/video/?slug=hc-rellspeech-wn Read the budget here: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/TOB/S/2009SB-00828-R00-SB.htm

The CT House of Reps released a list of the new ranking members and committee chairs today. For a copy of this info, please contact [email protected]