Connecticut Leads in Tackling Healthcare Affordability Through Collaborative Solutions
WALLINGFORD – The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) released the following statement in response to today’s forum on healthcare costs for Connecticut employers, Connecticut Healthcare Affordability: How It Impacts Your Company and Employees, which took place at Quinnipiac University and was co-hosted by Governor Ned Lamont, Comptroller Sean Scanlon, and the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy:
“We appreciate the Office of Health Strategy (OHS) bringing businesses together to hear from an employer coalition from Indiana and a professor from Rhode Island who suggested a number of solutions to improving healthcare affordability, many of which have already been enacted in Connecticut. What has been made clear today is that Connecticut is a leader in tackling affordability thanks to the state’s collaborative approach of bringing together all stakeholders to find solutions. We agree with Governor Lamont that access to healthcare must be front and center. To keep progressing, we must continue to identify Connecticut-developed solutions, including addressing chronic Medicaid underpayment that is putting enormous pressure on commercial health insurance spending.”
