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Lamont unveils plans to reduce cost of health care, cap price of prescription drugs The governor s budget proposal does not include an expansion of Medicaid Gov. Ned Lamont’s health care proposals include a tax on insurance carriers and a limit on cost increases for prescription drugs. Gov. Ned Lamont unveiled two proposals Wednesday aimed at reducing the cost of health care – an annual assessment on insurance carriers that would bring in money for additional subsidies on Connecticut’s insurance exchange, known as Access Health CT, and a plan to limit yearly increases in the cost of prescription drugs. Lamont proposed creating the “Covered Connecticut Program,” in which an annual fee would be levied on insurers, similar to the Health Insurance Tax created under the Affordable Care Act. Congress repealed the federal tax in 2019; the repeal took effect last month. ....
Town leaders: Eversource left municipalities in the dark about Isaias clean-up Utility accused of prioritizing power restoration over clearing downed wires and trees Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Children took a watermelon break after cleaning up small branches that came down during Tropical Storm Isaias on Aug. 6, but they and their parents had to wait days for work crews to clear the big trees and wires that blocked their road. Eversource Energy’s municipal liaisons routinely were unable to update communities on power restoration and road-clearing efforts following Tropical Storm Isaias in a major departure from past responses a handful of first selectmen told state utility regulators Monday morning. ....
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas :: CtMirror.org Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, a former Republican candidate for governor, is to be named the new commissioner of the Department of Revenue Services. Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton vowed to cut the income tax as a Republican candidate for governor in 2018. Now, he is about to get the job of collecting it on behalf of the Democrat who won that year. Gov. Ned Lamont intends to cross the aisle and name Boughton, a three-time Republican candidate for governor, as the commissioner of the Department of Revenue Services Friday, an administration source said Thursday night. Boughton, 56, is the longest-serving mayor of Danbury, elected in 2001 to the first of 10 two-year terms. He was the convention-endorsed candidate for governor in 2018, only to finish second in the crowded GOP primary to Bob Stefanowski, who promised to eliminate the income tax if elected. ....