Health Care

Hartford, CT – Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01),Senators Joseph I. Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal, and Reps. Rosa DeLauro, Jim Himes, Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy applauded a recent $107,358,676 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant awarded to support the continued establishment of Connecticut's health insurance exchange.

Hartford, CT – Today Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced that $750,000 in federal funding has been awarded to the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut (CHCACT) to provide a full range of HIV specialty medicine and social services to infants, children, youth and women who are infected or affected by HIV/ AIDS. The funding is being awarded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Ryan White Title IV AIDS Healthcare Program.

Washington – Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) applauded a U.S. District Court decision last week to require TRICARE – the military healthcare system – to cover Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy as a medical treatment for military families that have children with autism. According to recent estimates, 1 in every 88 military children has autism.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:October 3, 2007

LARSON: PRESIDENT?S PRIORITIES ARE ALL WRONG

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:September 27, 2007

Larson: Bush Betrays America?s Children

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:August 28, 2007

REPS. LARSON, COURTNEY CONDEMN BUSH?S DECISION TO CUT HEALTH CARE FOR THOUSANDS OF CT CHILDREN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:August 1, 2007

LARSON VOTES TO PRESERVE CHILDREN?S HEALTH CARE, IMPROVE MEDICARE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:July 27, 2007

LARSON PRAISES WAYS AND MEANS PASSAGE OF CHILDREN?S HEALTH, MEDICARE BILL
Includes long-term care hospital provisions championed by Larson