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WTW official: Dobbs decision raises questions with no immediate answers for employers.

"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."

These community health centers must take all patients regardless of their ability to pay, and, in return, they receive annual government grants and higher reimbursement rates from Medicaid and Medicare than private physicians.

"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,

The complaint charges that Alliant immediately began contacting Gallagher clients to induce them to leave Gallagher and move their business to Alliant.