Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Nov. 3, 2009

Meriden and everywhere: the insurance payment fight or contractual negotiations between insurer Aetna and Hartford Healthcare, hospital giant. Nothing could demonstrate better the need for health care reform top to bottom when an essentially business difference between any insurer and any provider can result in letters being sent out to the insured workers or whomever, warning them of impending catastrophe – which a) will probably not happen and which b) gets everyone needlessly riled up.

Area: The restriction on visitors, given the H1N1 epidemic, which MidState has imposed make sense under the circumstances. The patients, regardless of their disease, need protection from whatever visitors might bring in, although limitations may impose some heartache on some families.

Wallingford: Repairs planned for the fire training facility on Masonic Avenue. Firefighters, both full-time and volunteer, use the building constantly, and the repairs should return it to tip-top condition.

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