Connecticut’s Healthcare Providers Know Best How to Care for Patients

Let them do their jobs.

Say “NO” to more bureaucracy and added burdens on local hospitals.

Hospitals are confronting the challenges posed by a post-pandemic healthcare system.  They are treating sicker patients, facing critical workforce shortages, and experiencing grave financial headwinds and inflationary pressures.

Through it all, hospitals are steadfast, providing high-quality 24-hour care for everyone who walks through their doors, supporting an exemplary healthcare workforce, focusing on making Connecticut’s healthcare system more equitable, and driving world-class innovation right here in Connecticut.

Connecticut lawmakers should reject policies that would increase government bureaucracy and control in healthcare and stifle the ability of healthcare providers to make care decisions.


Clinical care providers know best when it comes to treating patients.

Adding administrative burdens and imposing new reporting requirements on healthcare providers will only increase costs, further strain hospitals, and threaten access to critical healthcare services.

Government bureaucracy is not best positioned to oversee healthcare decisions; look no further than the alarming underfunding of Medicaid, which has hurt vital services, especially in underserved communities, and has worsened healthcare affordability by shifting costs to those with commercial insurance.

Connecticut lawmakers should reject policies that would implement rigid and needless burdens on local hospitals – burdens that don’t help patients.

Say NO To:

Taking decision-making away from healthcare providers in emergency situations

A new proposal would give the state the ability to determine when hospitals can declare emergency department diversions, interfering in the care-related decisions of care providers in emergency situations while offering no assistance in solving the underlying problem (SB 9).

Increasing barriers to care by adding more red tape to the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) process

Instead of making the CON process work better for patients and communities and streamlining the process, as lawmakers have long advocated, the state is pursuing policies that would create more barriers and delays that interfere with healthcare access, affordability, and jobs (SB 9).

Ceding more control to a government agency overseeing the flawed implementation of the cost growth benchmarking process

Impractical, premature proposed modifications to the state’s healthcare cost growth benchmark would rely on inaccurate data to penalize strained hospitals, making it more challenging to achieve affordability goals (HB 5054).  Connecticut must not grant more authority to a broken system that is using flawed data to make recommendations and decisions that impact healthcare.  Learn more.

Costly and unnecessary reporting requirements that do not help patients

Proposals to implement new, extensive state reporting on the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program (SB 241) would do nothing to help the state’s low-income residents and communities that 340B savings enable hospitals to support.  New hospital financial reporting requirements (SB 9) would also fail to move the needle on solutions for patients, instead adding needless, time-consuming reporting about financial challenges that hospitals have been sounding the alarm about for years.  Instead of offering solutions, these proposals offer nothing but additional, unnecessary burdens.

Say Yes To:

Removing barriers to healthcare access by improving the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) process

Reforms are needed to stop delays and excessive administrative burden that delay care and hamper jobs development.

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Addressing Medicaid underpayment and making healthcare more affordable and accessible

In Connecticut, Medicaid reimburses only 62 cents for every dollar spent providing care, and Medicare reimburses only 74 cents on the dollar.  This puts enormous financial strain on caregivers, and shifts costs to other patients.

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Supporting the healthcare workforce

Continue collaborative efforts to stop workplace violence and bolster hospitals’ recruitment and retention efforts to address the critical healthcare workforce shortage.

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Addressing unfair health insurance company practices

Including burdensome prior authorization policies, that reduce access to care

Low Medicaid Reimbursement Rates Threaten Vital Services

It’s time to ensure equitable access to healthcare for all Connecticut residents.

Support healthcare access and affordability by increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates, removing barriers to access, and supporting the healthcare workforce.

Oppose legislation that adds burdens to hospitals and disregards care providers in decision-making.

Questions? Contact CHA Government Relations at 203.294.7310