Mercy sponsors free Medicare options event in April (The Suburbanite)
Marketing event will feature Advantage Plan representatives and Mercy's Medicare counselor.

New AARP chief focuses on health-care costs (Norwalk Advocate)
STAMFORD -- A. Barry Rand of Stamford, recently named head of the AARP, grew up in transformational times. It was the 1960s in Washington, D.C., and social movements were breaking down racial and gender barriers.

Groups find common ground on health care overhaul (AP via Yahoo! News)
Groups often at odds over health care reform consumers, insurers, doctors, employers reached a broad agreement Friday that could serve as a starting point for lawmakers trying to overhaul the system.