The Connecticut Health Care Security Act would:

• Provide comprehensive health care insurance for all Connecticut residents while decreasing health care expenses
  
• Improve the health care of Connecticut residents without health insurance
  
• Improve the health care of the poor who are served by the Husky programs
  
• End the poorer quality health care, disruption of continuity of care, destruction of patient confidentiality, and limited choice of health care givers associated with employer based, managed care health insurance
  
• Allow health care givers, health care organizations, health care advocates, employers and taxpayers to participate in insurer decisions about health care fees and benefits
  
• Decrease out of pocket expenses for Medicare recipients and workers who access health insurance through their employer
  
• Return medical decision making to health care givers
  
• Allow free choice of any licensed health care provider
  
• Lower future health care costs by emphasizing preventive health care
  
• Free workers from staying in unwanted jobs to maintain health insurance
  
• End bankruptcy due to medical bills
  
• Lower health care costs for large employers, and make health care insurance more affordable for small employers
  
• Ensure patient confidentiality
  
• Maintain the current health care delivery system
  
• Maintain the income of health care givers
  
• Decrease activities detrimental to health by taxing them to the extent they contribute to health care costs
  
• End the uncertainty and frustration associated with our current health care insurance system
  
• Ensure that health care costs in Connecticut increase at a rate less than the national average
  
• Ensure equal quality and access to health care for all