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DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT ~B~ COMMITTEE SOUTH NORWALK OFFICIAL SITE Robert Burgess, Chairman Sylvester Maultsby, Vice-Chair Al Ayme, Secretary Phaedrel (Faye) L. Bowman, Corresponding Secretary Yvonne Rodriguez, Treasurer We appreciate your contributions. Please send contributions payable to: DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT ~B~ COMMITTEE ~click here~ STATE OF THE CITY | '2005 - '2007 STATE OF THE CITY | '2007 - Present CT. STATE NEWS | ISSUES NATIONAL NEWS | ISSUES MAILING LIST EVENTS | PICTURES VIEW | POST - BLOG STREET MAP OF SOUTH NORWALK |
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Uninsured in Connecticut: In the most recent economic downturn (2000 to 2002), the United States’ health uninsurance rate increased by 1% (from 15.2 to 14.2%); Connecticut’s health uninsurance rate increased two and half times faster, by 2.6% (7.9 to 10.5%). ~page 3, this link~ This suggests that Connecticut’s workers may be more vulnerable to economic stress and losing their health insurance than in the nation as a whole. Furthermore, the U.S. Census Bureau’s official Connecticut estimates of a 10.5% rate [most recent at 12% (355,000 of population) non-elderly unsinsured] of the lack of health insurance in the general population and 12.5% for the non-elderly understates the problem of those without health insurance. Although often quoted as ‘the uninsurance rate’, this rate counts only those who lacked health insurance for the entire (previous) calendar year. Because continuity in health insurance is an important factor in establishing appropriate routine and preventive health care services, a more useful estimate of the lack of health insurance is those who have gone without health insurance at any point during the previous year. A recent study by Families USA estimates that 26.5% or 767,000 of Connecticut’s non-elderly population has gone without insurance at some point within a year and almost two-thirds of them were without health insurance for six months or more. These numbers suggest that the lack of health insurance directly affect almost a quarter of Connecticut’s residents – nearly two and half times larger the routinely reported number. In fact, in Connecticut, 31% of Hispanic households and 24% of African-American households have incomes below the poverty line. Republican Gov. Jodi Rell Short on Commitment for Needed School Projects Democratic legislators defied Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell by refusing her demand that they reduce a $3.2 billion bond package to a few hundred million dollars for school construction projects. It took the Senate several hours to pass a Democrat-backed $3.2 billion bond package on a 21-12 vote that fell along party lines. The House passed the bill on a mostly party-line 84-38 vote shortly before midnight. (Source: Hartford, Courant www.courant.com/news/) Gov. M. Jodi Rell VETOED THE BILL Republican Angered About Super 7 by the end of 2008 Democratic Senator(25th) Bob Duff inserted language on line 3,046 of a bonding package that would require the state Department of Transportation to report, using available funds, on the viability of Super 7 (Route 7) by the end of 2008. (Project widening Route 7 to 4 lanes) The move riled Republican. Toni Boucher [R-143] who tried to introduce several amendments to the language and threatened to tie up legislation with hours of debate on the house floor. She later received a pledge from Speaker of the House Jim Amman and Transportation Committee Chairman Antonio Guerrera to remove the language if the bill passed. (Source: Wilton Villager www.wiltonvillager.com) |
