The push for a new state-subsidized health insurance plan failed in Connecticut this year. Instead, thousands of people will receive new coverage under the ACA.
After it became clear that the public option wasn't going to pass last spring, lawmakers supported a plan to devote $23.6 million to the "Covered Connecticut Program," an effort to provide free health coverage through the ACA exchange to as many as 40,000 qualifying people. The program launched in July.
