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Ned Lamont: “It's not state run. We're not great at being an insurance…”

Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic | Governor of Connecticut

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Published | Video Starts at 29:45

And UConn Health will be at the heart of that. So is this essentially an insurance plan you'd be selling like a public option where people can buy into some kind of state run program? It's not state run. We're not great at being an insurance company, but we can work with, put together this network, get the state employees as part of it and maybe have one of our really smart insurance companies manage this. It'd be privately managed, but I think it gives us not next year, but over the next few years a real chance to bend the curve on health care. (29:45–29:58)

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Asserts that the proposed network will not be state-run but managed by a private insurance company.

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