A state healthcare board approved recommendations Wednesday that call for the combination of state employees, prisoners and the poor into a single healthcare pool by 2012 and the expansion of that pool into a government-run insurance plan by 2014. The SustiNet Board of Directors, charged with delivering a recommendation for expanding health insurance coverage, [...]
The results are in. There are 308,745,538 people in the U.S., according to the 2010 Census. Connecticut’s population grew from 3,405,565 to 3,581,628, a rate of 5.1 percent since 2000. Nationwide the population grew by 9.7 percent over the last 10 years. The Census Bureau will release additional data over the next four months until [...]
The Census Bureau announced its first batch of data Tuesday confirming Connecticut will retain its five seats in Congress, but due to population shifts and varied growth rates the state’s political lines still need to be redrawn. Eight legislators will dominate the redistricting process as members of the redistricting committee, provided for by the Connecticut [...]
The 2010 Census isn’t likely to be as momentous for Connecticut as the results 10 years ago announcing the state would lose one of its six seats in Congress. However, the announcement at 11 a.m. today does begin a yearlong process of tweaking Connecticut’s five congressional, 36 state senate and 151 state house districts. [...]
The $1.1 trillion spending bill making its way through Congress this week includes $154 million in earmarks requested by Connecticut’s delegation, according to a database compiled by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn. Outgoing Sen. Chris Dodd requested or co-requested $120 million of the earmarks, or 78 percent of the total. Sen. Joe Lieberman put his name [...]
Connecticut’s unpaid obligation to provide healthcare benefits for retirees could reach $40 billion by 2017 if elected officials fail to act, according to a December estimate. The state already owes $26.5 billion in healthcare benefits to current and future retirees. However, the estimate, done by the firm Milliman for the Comptroller’s Office, uses data from [...]
Connecticut has $59.8 billion in unfunded liabilities, according to the Institute for Truth in Accounting, which amounts to $46,100 per taxpayer. In its Financial State of Connecticut report, IFTA shows the state has $69.9 billion in liabilities, but only $10.1 billion in assets to offset those liabilities. Divided across the state’s entire population of 3.5 [...]
Connecticut state employees, HUSKY and Medicaid recipients and municipal workers could all share the same health plan within the next three years if a proposal by the SustiNet board of directors goes forward. The 11-member SustiNet board met Thursday to begin making decisions about what to recommend to the General Assembly at the end of [...]
