Sunday, April 23, 2017

Courant Op-Ed: Plan to ‘Fix’ State Medicaid Program Flawed

From Saturday’s Hartford Courant, “These are lean times and we need our government to be smart about where it puts its resources. We don't need our limited taxpayer dollars spent "fixing" things in our Medicaid program that aren't broken.” The article points out the state’s backward plan, PCMH +, to apply a risky experiment, meant to slow health care growth, to the only part of Connecticut’s health system that doesn’t need it, our Medicaid program. Just because they can.