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State lawmakers want to ban all flavored tobacco and e-cigarette products for good this legislative session to cut off their popularity with kids and teens.
Anti-smoking and public health advocates hope the bill will ultimately reduce vaping and tobacco addiction among youth, as well as address some racial health disparities.
“There’s really no reason to have most of these flavors,” said Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, bill co-sponsor and co-chair of the state’s public health committee. “They really are only intended to tempt and entice young people or even adults down a path in which there is almost certainly to be addiction.”
Democratic leaders of the legislature’s public health committee said Wednesday they will again push a bill to end religious exemptions for vaccinations among Connecticut schoolchildren over Republican objections that the committee should focus on less controversial and coronavirus-related matters.
Democrats eye tax on insurers to fund broader health reform package
Cars queue for Covid-19 testing at Hartford Hospital’s drive-through sampling site on Hudson Street.
Tapping into frustrations over the rising cost of health coverage and a lack of access to care, Democratic lawmakers in Connecticut are planning a package of reforms aimed at reducing expenses for people who buy their health insurance through the state’s exchange and making coverage more affordable for small businesses.
At the center of the proposal is a plan to revive the Health Insurance Providers Fee, more commonly known as the Health Insurance Tax – a tax on carriers created under the Affordable Care Act to help fund federal and state marketplace exchanges. Congress repealed the federal tax on insurers in 2019; the rollback is effective this month.
Add cameras to CT nursing home rooms, advisory group recommends
Jenna Carlesso, CTMirror.org
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Jaclyn Petrizzo, of Manchester, left, and Kim Boulette, of Vernon, visit their mother and grandmother, Mildred Christadore, through the window.Yehyun Kim / CTMirror.org
Connecticut’s nursing homes, ravaged by coronavirus, should allow residents and their families to begin installing cameras in rooms, should broaden infection control training and practices, should increase their supply of personal protective gear and should continue aggressively testing staff members to catch non-symptomatic cases, members of an advisory group recommended Thursday.
The state’s nursing home oversight panel is devising suggestions for legislative reform in long-term care facilities, which have been hard-hit by the spread of COVID-19. As of Dec. 29, the most recent data available, 3,532 nursing home residents had died of coronavirus - representing 60 percent of Connecticut’s overa
Connecticut’s nursing homes, ravaged by coronavirus, should allow residents and their families to begin installing cameras in rooms, should broaden infection control training and practices, should increase their supply of personal protective gear and should continue aggressively testing staff members to catch non-symptomatic cases, members of an advisory group recommended Thursday.