{"id":2099,"date":"2021-04-28T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:35:44","slug":"long-past-time-for-affordable-health-care-a-real-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"Long past time for affordable health care \u2014 a real public option"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/ct-viewpoints\/\">CT VIEWPOINTS<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0by\u00a0<a class=\"author url fn\" href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/category\/ct-viewpoints\/long-past-time-for-affordable-health-care-a-real-public-option\/\" rel=\"author\">KATE FARRAR AND JILLIAN GILCHREST<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2021\/02\/16\/\">FEBRUARY 16, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The COVID-19 health and economic crisis lays bare the need for a real public option healthcare bill in Connecticut.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/cgabillstatus\/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&amp;which_year=2021&amp;bill_num=842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 842,<\/a>\u00a0which received a public hearing on February 9, expands the coverage of the current state employee health care plan to allow small businesses, non-profits, and unions to buy into the plan that fits their needs. It also expands Medicaid eligibility, increases subsidies for individuals already on the state health care exchange, and provides subsidies for immigrants, regardless of status.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/category\/ct-viewpoints\/long-past-time-for-affordable-health-care-a-real-public-option\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, you may go to <a href=\"http:\/\/ctaffordablehealthcare.com\/\">The Connecticut Campaign for Affordable Health Care<\/a> at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ctaffordablehealthcare.com\/\">http:\/\/ctaffordablehealthcare.com\/<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 Access their resources and letter templates and join them in the fight for health care that is equitable, dependable, and affordable<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row section vc_row-fluid vc_inner \"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CT VIEWPOINTS\u00a0 \u00a0by\u00a0KATE FARRAR AND JILLIAN GILCHREST\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0FEBRUARY 16, 2021 The COVID-19 health and economic crisis lays bare the need for a real public option healthcare bill in Connecticut.\u00a0Senate Bill <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2099\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[836,833,837,99,835,834],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-2021-legislative-session","tag-affordable-health-care","tag-health-care-for-all","tag-health-care-reform","tag-public-option","tag-senate-bill-842"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}