“When the market is not working, states can take action,” said Dr. Deidre Gifford, the physician and health-care cost expert who advises the governor on health issues as the executive director of the Office of Health Strategies.
Gov. Ned Lamont addressed rising health costs and hospital consolidation Tuesday with two bills that put a free-market governor at odds with Big Pharma and a hospital industry that is a major employer.
Two Yale School of Medicine studies found an increased number of Emergency Department patients waiting to be admitted to the hospital and a higher number leaving without being seen.