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Senate bill to study a ‘Basic Health Plan’ sparks heated debate over Medicaid rates and hospital stability
Summary
Senate Bill 3, a broad health-care affordability package that would create a planning process for a Basic Health Plan and fund a health-care affordability trust, passed from committee to the floor after extended debate about Medicaid reimbursement, hospital financial stability and how a state-run option would be funded and administered.
Senate Bill 3, the legislature’s sweeping health-care affordability proposal, was advanced out of the Human Services Committee after an extended, sometimes pointed, debate over whether the state should prioritize immediate Medicaid reimbursement increases or study market reforms such as a Basic Health Plan and a Connecticut option.
Senator Lesser, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee the package is designed to respond to “major threats to the stability of our hospitals” caused in part by federal changes and the loss of enhanced premium tax credits. He said the bill starts a planning and study process that could expand coverage and create a health-care affordability trust capitalized in part by the state’s federal emergency-response fund. “This will make health…
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