However, The Connecticut Business and Industry Association is quietly trying to kill this bill. It could potentially cut into CBIA s monopoly on health insurance for employers with 50 or fewer employees. If the revenue projections are not realized and the Governor draws a line in the sand on the spending cap, we all lose. The Pubic Relations Collaborative has purchased further television air time to run additional ads starting this last week of April for several weeks. There is a direct mail action request piece being targeted to General Assembly Leadership districts.
Letters are still helpful.
It has met the needs of many of Connecticut s citizens. Nevertheless, I am concerned that private provider organizations contracting with the Departments of Social Services and Public Health have not been included in the cost of living increases recommended by the Governor and the Appropriations Committee. These providers did participate in the last biennium for the first time in over a decade.