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Policy Brief #2 - Negotiating for a Better Deal

A well-made state exchange can help deliver lower costs for individuals and small businesses. Just as big businesses negotiate with insurers, using the bargaining power of their employees to push for lower premiums, so too can exchange enrollees benefit from a muscular exchange that negotiates on their behalf for better choices and lower costs.

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Media Hit | Transportation

The Day: Central College Express

Escalating gas prices make the idea of a refurbished, passenger-carrying Central Corridor Rail line all the more enticing. Its potential to boost economic growth could make it a winner.

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News Release | Financial Reform

House Kneecaps Wall Street Reform Funding, But Goal is Worse

New In the Public Interest column today on The Huffington Post by Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director for U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG).

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News Release | Health Care

Effective State Exchanges Key to Lower Health Costs for Consumers

Policy-makers can address rising health care costs by implementing effective health insurance exchanges, according to the first in a new series of policy briefs released today by ConnPIRG, a consumer advocacy group.

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Report | Health Care

Policy Brief #1 - Ensuring Accountability

The opportunity to create an exchange will allow the states to increase competition and improve choices in their insurance markets. However, to fully realize this opportunity, the exchange must be accountable to the public, and the individual and small business consumers who will buy their coverage through it.

The best way for the states to realize these goals is to make decisions about the exchange’s structure and governance to ensure that this important new entity is transparent in its operations, and fundamentally accountable to the public interest.

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Media Hit | Consumer Protection

Fisher Price Recalls 10 Million Toys

Toy manufacturer Fisher Price announced Thursday that it has recalled about 10 millions toys because they are dangerous to children.

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News Release | Consumer Protection

CPSC and Fisher Price Announce Recall of 11 Million Dangerous Toys

This morning, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Health Canada and Fisher Price announced the recall of 11 million childrens’ products. The products include tricycles that pose a risk of injury because of protruding key, toy car sets and infant toys with detachable small parts that pose choking hazards, and high chairs that pose a risk of laceration injury.

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Media Hit | Transportation

Amtrak's Ambitious, High-Speed Rail Plan Includes Hartford

Amtrak officials have unveiled their vision for true high-speed service along the Northeast Corridor, a $117 billion plan that includes service to Hartford. The proposed new high-speed service between Washington and Boston, with trains that could travel at 220 miles per hour, would require its own dedicated tracks and a new route north of New York away from the congested seacoast, said Amtrak president Joseph Boardman.

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Media Hit | Consumer Protection, Food

Food Safety Bill Stalled Despite Recalls

This week, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to move forward with a food safety bill, a Republican senator objected and blocked further action for now.

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Media Hit | Health Care

Students and Healthcare Reform

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney visited the University of Connecticut’s Student Union Monday for a roundtable discussion with student leaders about health insurance reform. In an election season dominated by the Tea Party and its cries to repeal Obamacare Courtney found a constituency Monday that supports federal health care reform.

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