{"id":459295,"date":"2010-03-22T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74415"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:14:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:14:21","slug":"malloy-conn-cant-wait-for-the-feds-to-implement-the-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459295","title":{"rendered":"Malloy: Conn. can’t wait for the feds to implement the health care bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

While he congratulated Congress, and the state’s Democratic delegation in particular, for passing the health care bill, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy said the state needs to tackle the issue as well.<\/p>\n

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“<\/span>When it comes to the law’s impact here in Connecticut, it’s important to remember that most major changes will take years to implement,” Malloy said in a statement this morning. “As I’ve said many times, Connecticut can’t afford to rely on the federal government when it comes to making progress on big issues.  That’s why I supported the SustiNet and pooling bills last year, and it’s why as Mayor of Stamford I implemented the Every Child Matters program, extending health insurance to more than 2,200 uninsured HUSKY eligible children.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

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“This progress should serve as a reminder of not only what government can accomplish, but also of the work still left to be done in Connecticut.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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While he congratulated Congress, and the state’s Democratic delegation in particular, for passing the health care bill, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy said the state needs to tackle the issue as well. “When it comes to the law’s impact here in Connecticut, it’s important to remember that most major changes will take years to implement,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}