Will CT’s new healthcare affordability measures lower costs?

CT Mirror – Tuesday, August 18, 2026
By Katy Golvala

For years, Connecticut lawmakers and elected officials have been laboring to understand — and curtail — rapidly rising healthcare costs.

They first gathered data to measure annual growth in healthcare spending and established benchmark growth rates. The intent was for insurers and healthcare providers to hew to the benchmark rate or lower, but there was no way to enforce it.

That’s starting to change.

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