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Hartford: John DeStefano – Democratic candidate for governor – today announced Connecticut CAN (Cover All Now), a bold and historic plan to make affordable health care available to everyone in Connecticut. He made the announcement at Express Kitchens & Flooring in Hartford, a small minority owned business struggling with health care costs. DeStefano was joined by Sikorsky workers just off the picket line in Stratford, Hamilton Sundstrand workers in Windsor Locks who are worried about their health care benefits, and members of the University Health Professionals Union (which is endorsing DeStefano for governor today) representing more than 2,000 workers at the UConn Health Center in Farmington. 

“I believe that every family should have access to affordable health care,” said DeStefano.  “Good health is a good investment for Connecticut:  School performance improves when children are healthy, workforce productivity improves when employees are healthy, businesses can compete when health care is affordable and tax dollars are saved when individuals have access to preventive health care.”

Principles of Universal Coverage under Connecticut Cover All Now!

Shared Responsibility.  John DeStefano believes that to achieve universal coverage we are all in it together.  Individuals will pay a portion of their health care coverage, and employers will receive generous tax incentives when they provide health care coverage and lose them when they do not.

Affordability.   The challenge facing many families in Connecticut is they either have lost their health care or fear losing it.  One of the main reasons is affordability.  The DeStefano plan targets small businesses, self-employed workers, part-time workers and laid off workers – in other words, those people who are the most vulnerable to losing their health care coverage.  The combination of creating a Connecticut Healthcare Consortium and reforming the corporate income tax code will provide affordable health care coverage for everyone.

Portability.  John DeStefano believes that as family members move from one job to the next or in and out of the workforce they should be able to maintain access to their health plan.  Creating the Connecticut Health Care Consortium will allow individuals to have the best portable health care plan in the country.

Choice.  Individuals should have the choice of several health care plans.  The Connecticut Health Care Consortium will offer several choices so that families can decide on what works best for them.

The DeStefano Connecticut Cover All Now! Plan is anchored by two major reforms:

• It creates a private health insurance one-stop marketplace, the Connecticut HealthCare Consortium (CHC), from which small businesses, families and individuals can purchase health insurance coverage, thus combining the small business and individual markets to create a large risk pool to open up access and drive down costs. 
• It reforms the state’s corporate income tax structure to provide all businesses with the tax relief needed to provide affordable, portable, and prevention-based coverage to every family in Connecticut. 

“Connecticut needs real leadership to make universal health care coverage a priority,” said DeStefano. “An estimated 356,000 people in Connecticut – including 71,000 children – do not have the security of health insurance to allow them to obtain preventive care or cover their medical needs should they fall ill – and this despite the fact that a large majority of the uninsured in Connecticut are employed.”

“Gov. Rell has offered NO plan for universal health care coverage.  Her most recent State of the State address did not even mention Connecticut’s health care crisis. Tax dollars continue to be spent on emergency room care rather then on prevention.   Small businesses get no help in providing coverage.  Large employers are allowed to dump their health care coverage and pass on the costs to taxpayers.  Job growth in Connecticut is among the worst in the country. Businesses look for relief from rising health care costs to compete, yet there is not a single tax incentive for companies to provide health care to their employees.  It is time to end the Rowland/Rell legacy of neglect.

While Gov. Rell has been asleep at the switch, neighboring states are moving to universal health care coverage.  Massachusetts has passed a bipartisan universal health care proposal, and proposals are in the works in Rhode Island and Vermont.”