Bill Text: CT SB00444 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Authorizing The Health Care Cabinet To Recommend Methods To Study And Report On Total State-wide Health Care Spending.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-07-05 - Signed by the Governor [SB00444 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00444-Comm_Sub.html
General Assembly |
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January Session, 2017 |
LCO No. 5613 | ||
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH |
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Introduced by: |
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AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE HEALTH CARE CABINET TO RECOMMEND METHODS TO STUDY AND REPORT ON TOTAL STATE-WIDE HEALTH CARE SPENDING.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 19a-725 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):
(c) The Health Care Cabinet shall advise the Governor regarding the development of an integrated health care system for Connecticut and shall:
(1) Evaluate the means of ensuring an adequate health care workforce in the state;
(2) Jointly evaluate, with the chief executive officer of the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange, the feasibility of implementing a basic health program option as set forth in Section 1331 of the Affordable Care Act;
(3) Identify short and long-range opportunities, issues and gaps created by the enactment of federal health care reform;
(4) Review the effectiveness of delivery system reforms and other efforts to control health care costs, including, but not limited to, reforms and efforts implemented by state agencies; and
(5) Advise the Governor on matters relating to: (A) The design, implementation, actionable objectives and evaluation of state and federal health care policies, priorities and objectives relating to the state's efforts to improve access to health care, [and] (B) the quality of such care and the affordability and sustainability of the state's health care system, and (C) total state-wide health care spending, including methods to collect, analyze and report health care spending data.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2017 |
19a-725(c) |
Statement of Purpose:
To lower the cost and improve the quality of health care in the state.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]