CT Dems are holding firm on health care. This is why

CT Mirror – Friday, October 3, 2025
By Mark Pazniokas

A Quiet Corner town that favored President Donald Trump by nine percentage points in 2024 is home to a couple in their 60s who face a $31,413 increase in the health coverage they buy through Access Health CT, the insurance marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, doesn’t know who they are or how they voted, but he said Friday the couple from Putnam and others like them are the reason Democrats refused to vote for a Republican plan that would have kept the federal government open though Nov. 21.

The GOP refused to include a Democratic provision that would have extended expiring tax credits that subsidize the health premiums that 142,000 Connecticut residents pay. Without the extension, premiums for 2026 will more than double, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Courtney and the other four House members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation gathered Friday at the downtown Hartford offices of Access Health CT to explain their stand and rebut false, oft-repeated Republican claims that their intent is to provide health care for undocumented immigrants.

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