Consumer Driven Health Care

"Our priority, our duty should be to Connecticut families and residents and small businesses, to protect them to make sure they don't have to pay more for health insurance and health care than they have to," Attorney General William Tong said. "And to ask, and to even require, the health insurance companies here today to do all they can to really serve their customers and not just extract as much as they can."

"Because health plans typically have multi-year contracts with health care providers, we haven't felt the full effect of price inflation in health plan cost increases yet," says Sunit Patel, Mercer's chief actuary for health and benefits.

Only 57 Senators voted in favor of the legislation: all 50 Democrats, as well as 7 Republicans,

As the pandemic evolved, we saw increased claims severity in younger populations covered by employer-sponsored plans, particularly for patients with comorbidities," says Tara Krauss, Head of Accident & Health at QBE North America.

Since the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion in June, Dr. Kim Puterbaugh says these cases put her and doctors like her in an impossible position

"We as Democrats have to be honest enough to acknowledge that coverage does not automatically mean adequate or timely care," said Democratic strategist Garry South, a longtime Newsom ally.