I strongly oppose Governor Ned Lamont’s plans to bring managed care organizations (MCOs) back into our successful Medicaid program. Currently, Connecticut leads the nation in Medicaid. Cost Managementaccess to health care, and Quality of careA reinstatement of the MCO would put all this at risk.
MCOs are private insurance plans that run the state’s Medicaid program. In 1996, then-Governor John Rowland hired MCOs to run the Medicaid program, It was a disasterAt the time, I was a state legislator, a dental provider for children covered by HUSKY, and a member of the state Medicaid Oversight Council, and this was one of the most frustrating government failures I have ever witnessed. MCO ran HUSKY until 2012, when Governor Dannel Malloy finally ended this extremely expensive and harmful program.
