TELL LAWMAKERS NO TO SB10 and SB11!

Background:

Right now, lawmakers in Hartford are considering a pair of bills that threaten to destabilize Connecticut’s health insurance market and drive up your costs.

Among the threats posed by these bills:

SB10

• Shifts the burden to carriers to disprove the medical necessity of any treatment ordered.
• Prohibits the use of cost management tools for prescription drug coverage, like step therapy, which carriers use to control high drug costs while ensuring safe, effective treatment.
• Requires equal payment for services regardless of where they’re performed, i.e., inpatient or outpatient.
• Grants the State the authority to slash insurance premiums based on an arbitrary “affordability” standard.

SB11

• Places restrictions on employer stop-loss policies, exposing them to risk and loss of control.
• Limits tools used by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to lower costs for their customers.
• Expands diabetes coverage mandates, including capping out-of-pocket costs, which will drive up premiums.

Collectively, these bills will drive up healthcare costs by hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 5 years (SB10), while forcing employers to take on untenable risk or be pushed towards higher cost products with less flexibility to meet their employees’ healthcare needs – or, be forced to eliminate healthcare coverage altogether (SB11).

SB10 and SB11 will hurt employers’ ability to offer affordable, comprehensive health coverage to their employees.

Tell lawmakers to vote NO on SB10 and SB11!