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SUSTINET /HB 6600 What is saying about The proposed SustiNet plan is the most innovative and comprehensive effort to date and should be adopted in Connecticut.The public, small businesses and especially our members are eager for ACTION.” If the concepts in the SustiNet plan become law, important changes will help bring more doctors to Connecticut at a time when we need more doctors.” – Linda St. Peter, Connecticut Association of RealtorsTRANSCRIPT
The proposed SustiNet plan is the most innovative and comprehensive effort to date and should be adopted in Connecticut.The public, smallbusinesses and especially our membersare eager for ACTION.”– Linda St. Peter, Connecticut Association of Realtors
If the concepts in the SustiNet planbecome law, important changes willhelp bring more doctors to Connecticutat a time when we need more doctors.”
– Dr. Michael Deren, Connecticut State Medical Society
WhatCONNECTICUT
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As the federal government moves forward with reform onthe national level, this plan can serve as a model fornationwide change.”
– Sharon D. Langer, Connecticut Voices for Children
The SustiNet Plan is a well thought out, carefully crafted planthat brings together state of the art elements of health carereform to improve access and reduce the costs of care forthe citizens of Connecticut.”– Dr. Keith vom Eigen, American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter
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SustiNet ensures timely access to the full rangeof evidence-based health care services…necessaryto maintain health, avoid disease, overcome acuteillness, and live with chronic illness.”
– American Cancer Society
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We need your leadership inpassing this reform plan. Much like theabolitionists who took a bold stand toabolish slavery, we call upon you tostand in that tradition and help usabolish the condition of the uninsuredand the underinsured.”– Rev. James B.Walker, Phillips Metropolitan C.M.E. Church
The quality work represented by the SustiNet proposal and byother efforts underway in Connecticut means we should beleading the health reform efforts underway nationally.”
– Brenda Kelly, AARP
This is a big plan designed to address a big problem.” – Robert Madore, UAW Region 9A
The design of the SustiNet Plan contained in H.B. 6600addresses the key factors that some other plans presented tothis legislature lack. Economic times are difficult, but they willonly get worse for many employed and unemployedConnecticut citizens, if health care reform is delayed any longer.”
– Deacon David Reynolds, Connecticut Catholic Conference Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care
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Finding out about SustiNet and what it willdo for CT residents has given me a glimmer ofhope.There is no reason, in a state thatconsistently ranks in the top three wealthiest inthe country, that we should have residents whodo not know how or where they will be able toobtain the healthcare that they will need.”
– Melissa Karvelis, Connecticut Parent Power, East Hartford, CT
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The Connecticut State Medical Society believesthat our health care system needs to be reformedand that such reform must provide for greateraccess to medical care for ALL state residents;must be based on scientific evidence and ensurequality medical care is delivered; must be based ontransparent information associated with how careis delivered and how it is paid for; and must beappropriately and adequately funded.We believethat the SustiNet proposal meets these objectives.”
– Matthew Katz, Connecticut State Medical Society
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This plan is more than “good enough” or a “good start.” Thisplan is a specific and responsive roadmap to covering everyonein the state.”
– Ellen Andrews, PhD, Connecticut Health Policy Project
We are especially pleased with SustiNet's inclusion of aself-insured, public health insurance plan as a choice for allConnecticut residents – building on a pool of public employeesand HUSKY enrollees.”
– Suzanne Haviland, AFSCME Council 4
Under this plan, all Connecticut residents will have access totheir choice of high quality health coverage and health care. Noresident will be denied care because of pre-existing conditions.”
– Mary Jan Lundgren, RN, MSW, National Association of Social Workers
SustiNetoffers a high-quality health insurance plan thatpromotes healthy competition in the marketplacethrough new choices, and a new level ofaccountability and transparency.”
– Maggie Adair, Connecticut Association for Human Services
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SustiNet delivers on the principles Labor upholds for healthcare reform at both the state and national levels.The bill –and the process by which it was a built – is a model for theentire nation.”
– John Olsen, Connecticut AFL-CIO
A pooling system such as the SustiNet plan will help toguarantee Connecticut residents access to health careinsurance coverage and would help to control costs.”
– Dr.You Sung Sang, New London County Medical Association
Raised Bill 6600 recognizes the value of patient participationby establishing a framework in which patients partner withtheir health care providers to manage their care. Raised Bill6600 "gets" chronic illness and the many challenges facingthe chronically ill.”
– Jennifer C. Jaff, Esq., Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness
SustiNet recognizes that a critical component to health carereform is having the choice of a public health insurance planthat will guarantee families peace of mind and that isguaranteed to be there when you need it. A public healthinsurance plan such as SustiNet that competes directly withprivate insurers will help control health care costs forConnecticut’s families.”
– Phil Sherwood, Connecticut Citizen Action Group
SustiNet offers any Connecticut resident highquality, affordable health care regardless of pre-existing conditions, job changes, self-employment,divorce and other life changes.”
– Dr. Mary Jane Williams, Connecticut Nurses Association
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We urge you to support SustiNet on behalf of the smallbusiness owners we've met who struggle to provide healthbenefits for their employees.They know they need to offerhealth insurance to remain competitive, but by the time theypay their business insurance, mortgage and utilities, there islittle left.”
– Barbara Edinberg, Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
Through SustiNet, the State of Connecticut could finallyaddress the real and sustained crisis that children, pregnantwomen, older adults and others face every day in trying toaccess dental care.”
– Madeline McClave, Connecticut Oral Health Initiative
This plan would do a great deal to ensure universal, continuousaccess to quality healthcare services in a sustainable way. It willalso save money by encouraging preventive health care andearly interventions in medical illnesses.”
– The Connecticut Public Health Association
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Excerpted from testimony from Public Hearing on March 2, 2009.
If we don’t find a way to make quality andaffordable health care available to people with thedesire and guts to run small businesses, it will beyet another reason for these people not to investin Connecticut’s economy.SustiNet offers a choice forsmall businesses that theycan buy, if they choose, fromtheir trusted broker.”
– Kevin Galvin, Connecticut CommercialMaintenance & Small Businesses
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ACORN-CTAdvocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, IncAmerican Cancer SocietyAFSCME, Council 4American Federation of Teachers - ConnecticutAmerican Friends Service Committee Bridgeport Child Advocacy CoalitionCommission on ChildrenConnecticut Academy of Family PhysiciansConnecticut AFL-CIOConnecticut Association for Home Care andHospice
Connecticut Association for Human Services Connecticut Association of RealtorsConnecticut Catholic Conference Connecticut Chapter of the American College ofPhysicians
Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Connecticut Health Policy Project Connecticut Connecticut Nurses AssociationConnecticut Oral Health InitiativeConnecticut Public Health Association Connecticut State Medical Society Connecticut State Medical Society-IPA, Inc.Connecticut Voices for Children Connecticut Working FamiliesNational Association of Social Workers,Connecticut Chapter
New London County Medical AssociationPermanent Commission on the Status of WomenService Employees International Union, Local 32BJSmall Businesses for Health Care ReformUAW Region 9A United Connecticut Action for NeighborhoodsUnited Food and Commercial Workers, Local 371Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut
Add YOUR voice:
web: www.healthcare4every1.org
email: [email protected]
phone: 203-639-0550 x 314
SUSTINET, HB 6600 IS SUPPORTED BY (PARTIAL LIST):
healthcare4every1Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut290 Pratt Street, Meriden, CT, 06450
To see the latest list of SustiNet / HB 6600 supporters,or to add your organization to the list, go towww.healthcare4every1.org/SustiNet.
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