Sen. Hwang and I discuss the proposed $50million tax on the health insurance industry and the impact it will have on the cost private health insurance.
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Sally Pipes
Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute joins me with a look at new legislation that would outlaw all private insurance in the US and put all Americans on a federally-run plan within two years She says Medicare-for-All just won’t die , but will tell us why it should.
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Bob LaBonne, Jr.
Bob is the President and CEO of LaBonne’s Markets. He joins me to discuss the proposed public health insurance option being debated in Hartford and the impact it would have on his business and all business in Connecticut.
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Monologue 5/12/21
Hearst Media is asking the state to not implement the public health insurance option being debated in Hartford in an editorial where they ask numerous reasonable questions about the plan.
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Sen. Tony Hwang
The firefighters union in the state is objecting to the proposal being debated in Hartford to create an unregulated insurance venture. CT State Senator Tony Hwang and I discuss.
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Nora Duncan
The state director of the CT AARP Nora Duncan explains how nursing homes fared during the COVID-19 pandemic and what hew legislation is being discussed to further protect residents of long term care facilities from experiencing isolation, sickness and neglect.
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Sen. Kevin Kelly
Sen. Kelly offers his insight into the fiscal problems facing UConn and UConn Health and the downstream impact on taxpayers.
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D. is a Sr. Fellow in Business & Economics at the Pacific Research Institute, as well as the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation. He joins me to discuss the recent column that he co-authored “We Need Greater Transparency to Improve teh U.S. Healthcare System“.
Dr. Winegarden is also a co-author of “No Way Home: The Crisis of Homelessness and How to Fix It with Intelligence and Humanity“.