Senate leader: Let state pay for health care
When Lorraine Conderino and her husband retire in a few years, they fully expect to be working part-time jobs just to pay for their health-care coverage.
"They look forward to retirement, whenever that may be, but they can't, because they have to go back to work," said Conderino, 59, about people nearing retirement.
The Colchester resident echoes the worries of many others who say health care in Connecticut needs an overhaul.
And state Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn, says he has a plan to fix it.
At 7 tonight, the public is invited to the Rose City Senior Center in Norwich, where Williams will present "HealthFirst Connecticut: A Bold Approach to Fix a Broken System," a plan to reform the state's health-care delivery system.
Williams' proposal includes providing insurance coverage to the uninsured, expanding access to health care and ensuring quality health care throughout Connecticut with what he describes as a single-payer, "Medicare-for-All" plan.
"This is a landmark bill and part of an effort to do what no other state has done -- provide health care to everyone in the state, regardless of age or income," Williams stated in a press release. "While we work to find the best possible way to bring about wholesale reform of the health-care system in our state, Senate bill no. 1 includes immediate action to cover more than 140,000 in the state currently without insurance and measures to ensure access to people who have insurance."
Sylvia Nyszczy, a retiree in Griswold who uses Medicare, said the state's system works only for the poor and the rich.
"The middle class are out," said Nyszczy, who switched to Medicare from a private insurance plan a year ago.
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