Fasano, Klarides Comment on Malloy’s Hospital $ Reprioritization

Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano (R-North Haven) today issued the following statement in response to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s decision to reprioritize and reallocate funding to small acute care hospitals:

“This is crazy. Yesterday, the governor called me a ‘shill’ for Connecticut’s hospitals. Today, I guess I’m his guiding light.

“Gov. Malloy doesn’t know if he’s coming or going. This is the type of unpredictability that causes Connecticut businesses like General Electric to consider leaving Connecticut.

“This isn’t a responsible budget plan. What about the funds the governor cut for the disabled? This isn’t a thoughtful health care policy. It’s a press release dump just before a long holiday weekend.

“How can anyone rely on this promise when so many of the governor’s previous promises have been broken?”

House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (R-Derby) issued the following statement:

“Gov. Malloy is finally offering some temporary respite for our community hospitals as Republicans have been calling on him to do, but this token action does nothing to restore critical Medicaid funding for services to the poor or address the long-term funding of our health care system.

“We still need a special session of the legislature to be convened immediately to fix this mess. The mess was created by poor policies which the governor and the Democrat majorities supported. To fix it, we have to change those policies. And we have to act now.

“Legislative Republicans have stood up to the governor and demanded a special session. Only one courageous Democrat has. Where are the rest of the Democrats? Why do they continue to stay silent?”