HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The federal health care law is providing both challenges and opportunities for Connecticut lawmakers as they spend the coming weeks trying to reach a state budget compromise with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
The two-year, $43.8 billion proposal unveiled by the Democratic governor last week includes millions of dollars in health care spending needed to comply with the Affordable Care Act. But it also relies on millions of dollars in savings that the law generates.
The law "creates a great deal of change in our budget," acknowledged Ben Barnes, secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and Malloy's budget chief.
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