Ella Grasso was celebrated Friday as a trailblazer and a person of uncommon grit and humor — a “woman ahead of her time.”
May 10, 2019 @ 8:50 pm
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Lamont ratchets up pressure for vote on tolls
The governor also said he would support the transfer of $100 million per year from other programs to transportation. t
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Support for Lamont’s budget
We are writing in support of Gov. Ned Lamont’s 2019-2020 biennial budget proposal. We believe that his budget proposal is a solid effort to fund essential services in Connecticut while providing an effective approach to resolving the state’s legacy fixed-cost issues while slowing the growth of government. We might have preferred lower taxes and more reductions in costs, but we recognize that your proposal is a holistic effort to balance the budget, fund necessary services, reduce the reliance on debt and restructure the legacy pension and healthcare obligations.
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Lawmakers set hearing on wiping out religious exemption to vaccines
The hearing on Monday is a possible first step in introducing 11th hour legislation to repeal the religious exemption provision.
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High-deductible health plans bad for patients, doctors
High deductible health plans are increasingly common – more than half of all people who are covered by workplace insurance plans and 90 percent of those covered by health plans offered from state insurance exchanges are high deductible plans. High deductible plans require policyholders to pay out of pocket for 100 percent of the cost of their medical care until they reach a deductible of at least $1,350 for an individual or $2,700 for a family. These are minimums. Many plans come with substantially higher deductibles that –- when a serious medical need arises -– are beyond the patient’s financial grasp.
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Connecticut’s public health emergency – the opioid epidemic
I always admired the strength and courage of grieving parents who turn tragedy into advocacy, hoping to bring into the world what could have saved their own child’s life. On July 13, 2018, that inspiration became a call to action when we lost our son Alec to an accidental overdose in Canaan, CT on his 26th birthday.