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Last March, days after returning home from a family trip to Spain, Paloma Munoz’s 4-year-old son started to cough.
He spiked a fever overnight and began feeling short of breath. Alarmed, Munoz found a hospital with drive-up COVID testing and took her son to get swabbed.
When the results came back negative, she was relieved. Then a bill for $270 arrived in the mail.
“I was just speechless,” she recalled.
Her husband had changed jobs a few months earlier, forcing her family to shop for new health insurance. Unable to afford a policy through their employers or elsewhere, Munoz found an advertisement online for a cheaper, non-traditional type of coverage. For $500 a month, she joined Alliance for Shared Health, a religious health care sharing ministry that pools its members’ premiums to pay out some of their medical bills.
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In addition to Governor Lamont, other Connecticut politicians expressed their grief over Kane s death and their condolences to his family.
“I m saddened to learn of the passing of former Senator and State Auditor Rob Kane. He was a conscientious public servant in his near decade-long tenure as a legislator who always advocated for what he believed to be in the interests of his constituents and the state. On behalf of the entire Senate Democratic Caucus, I extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to his children and his entire extended family,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Martin. I am saddened to hear about the sudden passing of Rob Kane, State Auditor and former state Senator, who worked on behalf of Connecticut residents for more than a decade. My heart breaks for his family. My thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time, tweeted Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz.
Comcast, the internet provider serving much of southeastern Connecticut, plans to start charging the state’s “superusers” for the additional data they consume, a move some see as particularly ill-timed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
With many adults working from home and kids glued to virtual classrooms and online games, internet usage has soared.
State Sen. Norm Needleman, the Essex Democrat who co-chairs the legislature’s Energy and Technology Committee, said Thursday he’s heard complaints about Comcast s impending charges not only from constituents but from fellow legislators, many of whom, he said, are burning data like never before. They re at home with kids and they’re on Zoom call after Zoom call,” Needleman said. “They’re running up against the cap by the middle of the month. . They’re angry.”
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Daniel A. Arsenault, a rising star in state politics who quickly earned widespread respect under the Capitol’s gold dome in Hartford, died Christmas Eve after an accident. He was 31.