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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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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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News Release | Transportation

Obama Budget Seeks Major Boost in Transportation Investment

HARTFORD - Statement by ConnPIRG's Federal Senior Tax and Budget Analyst, Phineas Baxandall, on the Obama administration’s FY 2012 transportation budget proposal, which includes a major increase in transportation funding and an $8 billion annual investment in high-speed rail. 

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News Release | Food, Tax

Obama Budget Proposes Important First Cuts to Ag Subsidies

Statement of ConnPIRG Federal Public Health Advocate Elizabeth Hitchcock on the President’s proposed 2012 budget, which includes more than $1 billion in cuts over five years to agriculture subsidies that are achieved by reducing the cap on Department of Agriculture direct payments and tightening eligibility standards.

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News Release | Transportation

ConnPIRG, Hartford Students Praise Obama Administration for Kick-Starting High Speed Rail in Connecticut

Connecticut students are on board for bringing a stronger, faster rail system to the state, which will connect them to their hometowns, reduce congestion, oil use, and carbon emissions. While there is much still to be done, the Obama administration’s recent decision to award $40 million in high speed rail funds to Connecticut is the first step in making this a reality.

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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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Media Hit | Consumer Protection, Food

Egg Oversight in America is Scrambled

500 million eggs, across 24 brands, are potentially infected with Salmonella enteritidis. All of these eggs were traced back to just two Iowa producers, Wright County Egg, owned by Austin “Jack” DeCoster, and Hillandale Farms, in which DeCoster is a major investor.

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Media Hit | Consumer Protection, Food

Give FDA Right to Recall

The Food and Drug Administration still doesn’t have the power to order a recall.

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Media Hit | Consumer Protection

With McDonald's Recall, State Cadmium Ban Looking Timely

A legislative ban on the sale of children's jewelry containing cadmium, a heavy metal linked to negative health effects in children, was proposed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, and squeaked through the House of Representatives in the final minute of the legislative session that ended last month.

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Media Hit | Consumer Protection

CT House Passes Ban on Cadmium in Children's Products

State Representatives Chris Perone (D-Norwalk) announced that the Connecticut House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that will prohibit the sale, manufacturing, and distribution of children’s jewelry that contains cadmium.

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