Lamont: State’s Most Vulnerable Will Get One-Year Health Care Subsidies at Cost of About $70 Million

Gov. Ned Lamont urged residents to visit AccessHealthCT.com to see their potential costs and savings.

By Donald Eng, CTNewsJunkie.com

With Congress at a stalemate over extension of the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies, the governor announced Thursday that the state will be stepping in to provide assistance for residents.

“We’ve been working really hard with OPM (Office Of Policy and Management) and Access Health to do everything we can to, A – protect the most vulnerable, and we’re going to be able to subsidize Covered Connecticut to the degree to which anybody earning up to $56,000, there’ll be no change in your health care costs,” Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday afternoon.

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