Keeping Connecticut Healthy
June 24, 2022While I'm proud to have worked on a state budget with $600 million in tax relief, we also made investments in a range of health care-related initiatives.
The budget we approved includes funding for key programs such as:
- More tobacco prevention funding
- Expand screenings for breast and cervical cancer
- New statewide registry for strokes
- Increase funding to our specialty care hospitals
- More psychiatric treatment beds
- New home visit pilot for newborns
The budget includes $12 million for the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund. This marks a huge step in the right direction and sets Connecticut on the path to not only saving hundreds of thousands in tobacco-related healthcare costs but lives as well.
Economy-wide investments show how this budget's health care-related initiatives work for everyone in Connecticut.