Connecticut's Five Families
Health insurance companies want to raise your rates. Tell them no!
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Ask why CT residents should support obscene stock buybacks, profits and executive pay!
Insurance companies are seeking rate hikes averaging 20%. The CT Insurance Department is holding a hearing Monday, August 15 at 9 am for the public to submit and provide comments. You will be able to ask questions of the carriers and the Insurance Department.
CCAG wants you to have the information you need to speak out at the hearing. See updates above!
Submit testimony here or sign up here: https://bit.ly/CIDLetter
Take CCAG's survey here: https://bit.ly/ShareYourHealthCareStory
Make sure to check out, and like and share, these posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, calling out the outrageous amount of money being spent on executive pay, profits and stock buybacks.
UPDATE: The CT Insurance Department granted rate hikes, which while lower that requested are still too much. Stay in the fight with CCAG - click here to share your health care story!
Insurance companies are seeking rate hikes averaging 20%. The CT Insurance Department is holding a hearing Monday, August 15 at 9 am for the public to submit and provide comments. You will be able to ask questions of the carriers and the Insurance Department.
CCAG wants you to have the information you need to speak out at the hearing. See updates above!
Submit testimony here or sign up here: https://bit.ly/CIDLetter
Take CCAG's survey here: https://bit.ly/ShareYourHealthCareStory
Make sure to check out, and like and share, these posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, calling out the outrageous amount of money being spent on executive pay, profits and stock buybacks.
UPDATE: The CT Insurance Department granted rate hikes, which while lower that requested are still too much. Stay in the fight with CCAG - click here to share your health care story!
Check out CCAG's op-ed in the CT Mirror, "No Way to Run a Healthcare System."
Health insurance companies are making billions by denying you care.
Five of them sent this letter to Governor Lamont in April 2021, threatening to move jobs out of Connecticut if we passed a Public Option. It worked, and the Public Option was scrapped in the final days of the 2021 session.
CCAG is investigating, and bringing you information you need about the greed and profiteering of these companies.
Our latest report, Pandemic Profiteering: Making a Killing on COVID, finds that what these companies reported in profits, and spent on stock buybacks, could have funded the entire state of Connecticut for two years.
Our first report, on CEO compensation, showed that those five companies paid their CEOs $137.7 million in the last year. Our second, Games Insurers Play: How Low Will They Go?, explores the tactics and money spent in the 2021 legislative session. It shows that the industry, these Five Families, and dark money groups who don't disclose their donors spent at least $1.3 million lobbying in just six months.
By adding thousands of small businesses and nonprofits to the state's Partnership Plan, a Public Option would have offered affordable, quality coverage to tens of thousands of people. But it would have impeded the skyrocketing profits of the insurance industry.
It's time our lawmakers listened to the people of Connecticut, rather than millionaire insurance executives.
Make sure to like, follow and share our new Five Families Facebook page, and click here to take action and sign up for updates.
Five of them sent this letter to Governor Lamont in April 2021, threatening to move jobs out of Connecticut if we passed a Public Option. It worked, and the Public Option was scrapped in the final days of the 2021 session.
CCAG is investigating, and bringing you information you need about the greed and profiteering of these companies.
Our latest report, Pandemic Profiteering: Making a Killing on COVID, finds that what these companies reported in profits, and spent on stock buybacks, could have funded the entire state of Connecticut for two years.
Our first report, on CEO compensation, showed that those five companies paid their CEOs $137.7 million in the last year. Our second, Games Insurers Play: How Low Will They Go?, explores the tactics and money spent in the 2021 legislative session. It shows that the industry, these Five Families, and dark money groups who don't disclose their donors spent at least $1.3 million lobbying in just six months.
By adding thousands of small businesses and nonprofits to the state's Partnership Plan, a Public Option would have offered affordable, quality coverage to tens of thousands of people. But it would have impeded the skyrocketing profits of the insurance industry.
It's time our lawmakers listened to the people of Connecticut, rather than millionaire insurance executives.
Make sure to like, follow and share our new Five Families Facebook page, and click here to take action and sign up for updates.
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(860) 233-2181 - action@ccag.net